Lebanese Economy Minister: We have flour that will last for 4 months

Lebanese Economy Minister Raoul Nehme said that his country has 32 thousand tons of flour in addition to 110 tons that have arrived or will arrive within the next two weeks.

"So the stock will last for four months," he wrote in a tweet on Twitter.

The World Food Program will also send 17,000 tons of flour, the first batch of a plan to supply Lebanon with 50,000 tons.

A United Nations report said on Tuesday that Lebanon only had supplies for six weeks. "No stock crisis, no bread crisis!" Nehme said on Twitter.

On Friday, Nehme said that his ministry had been planning to keep a government stockpile of 40,000 tons of wheat, but that these plans had not been implemented before the explosion.

Source: CNBC Arabia