Hassan Diab
prime minister of Lebanon
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2020 Beirut explosion
- In 2020 Beirut explosion
On August 5 Prime Minister Hassan Diab declared a state of emergency; by the next week, Diab and his entire cabinet had resigned their positions amid intense criticism.
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association with Aoun
- In Michel Aoun: Presidency
…resignation of Hariri, Aoun tasked Hassan Diab, an academic and former education minister (2011–14), with forming a government. Although Diab boasted that the cabinet comprised technocrats and political outsiders, he failed to stop Lebanon’s plummet into chaos. Over the next several months, the government defaulted on a foreign debt payment…
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