Lebanese millers to halt production due to fuel shortages

The Lebanese flour millers’ association said on Tuesday fuel shortages were threatening bread production and mills would gradually stop working after supplies ran out.

Lebanon’s financial meltdown has translated into crippling fuel shortages that have paralysed many aspects of daily life.

Lebanon’s economic crisis, described by the World Bank as one of the deepest depressions of modern history, has seen its currency lose more than 90% of its value and propelled more than half of its population into poverty.