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		</div><p>Lebanese troops deployed in the northern city of Tripoli early on Sunday, taking positions around major state institutions after a night of protests and riots against worsening living conditions left several protesters and 10 soldiers injured.</p>
<p>Sporadic protests were reported throughout Lebanon on Saturday as the country’s 20-month economic crisis worsened.</p>
<p>The World Bank described the crisis as one of the worst the world has witnessed in 150 years. It is coupled with a political deadlock that has left Lebanon without a government since August.</p>
<p>The biggest protests were in the southern port of Sidon and in Tripoli, Lebanon’s second largest city and the most impoverished.</p>
<p>There were sporadic protests and road closures in the capital, Beirut.</p>
<p>Lebanon has been suffering severe shortages of vital products including fuel, medicine and medical products, angering the public.</p>
<p>Lebanon’s currency hit a record low on Saturday, reaching 18,000 pounds to the US dollar. The pound has lost more than 90% of its value since the crisis began.</p>
<p>In October 2019, protesters called for the removal of the political class that has run the country since the end of the 1975-90 civil war and has been blamed for corruption and mismanagement which has ruined the country’s economy.</p>
<p>The army said rioters on motorcycles threw stun grenades at troops in Tripoli, injuring nine soldiers, while another was injured when hit by a stone.</p>
<p>Protesters attacked several state institutions in the city.</p>
<p>The state-run National News Agency said Tripoli and other cities in Lebanon were quiet around noon on Sunday.</p>
<p>The situation in Lebanon is not expected to improve as political bickering between President Michel Aoun and Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri has delayed the formation of a government since Mr Hariri was named for the post in October.</p>
<p>Talks with the International Monetary Fund over the economic crisis have been suspended since last year.</p>
<p>The World Bank said Lebanon’s gross domestic product is projected to contract 9.5% in 2021, after shrinking by 20.3% in 2020 and 6.7% the year before.</p>
<p>Tens of thousands of people have lost their jobs since late 2019 in the tiny country of six million, including a million Syrian refugees. More than half the population lives in poverty.</p>
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