Recently, Saudi Arabia announced a sudden ban on all Lebanese imports to the Gulf kingdom. This was in response to comments made by the Lebanese minister of information, in which he criticized Saudi Arabia’s role in the war in Yemen. Now, workers in Lebanon are feeling the pain. The World’s Shirin Jaafari reports.
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