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Fuel shortage sparks internet blackout

The state-run internet company in Lebanon has warned of rolling blackouts as its generators run out of fuel, in the latest sign of the country’s political and economic collapse. Ogero said that generators in west Beirut were out of diesel and that the internet would go dark in three districts yesterday, affecting 26,000 subscribers. By lunchtime a resident had donated diesel, allowing the service to resume. Imad Kreidiyeh, Ogero’s head, threatened to resign at what he said was the government’s incompetence. But he admitted that the immediate cause of the shortage was the failure of one employee at the telecommunications ministry to sign a form needed for the diesel purchase.

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