Lebanon Struggles for Stability on Eve of Elections
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Channel: Voice of America · 2009 · News & Politics
Lebanon is a fractured land that has a long-standing struggle among a mixture of Christian sects, Sunnis, Shias, Druze and other religious factions. Since a resurgence of hostilities in 2006, when Israel launched a major military campaign against the armed group Hezbollah, the country has struggled to regain the relative stability it enjoyed after the 1975-1990 civil war. Mandy Clark reports from Beirut on the eve of parliamentary elections [June 7th].
