Nearly half of the capital Beirut was plunged as of Sunday morning into a communications outage, as state-run telecom provider OGERO ran out of diesel needed to operate its power generators.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati on Saturday swiftly welcomed the announcement by Hizbullah and the Amal Movement that they will resume their participation in Cabinet sessions.

Hizbullah and the Amal Movement on Saturday announced the end of their boycott of Cabinet sessions, citing “citizens’ needs” and “the living situations of the Lebanese.”

It is "most likely" that al-Mustaqbal Movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri will not personally run in the upcoming parliamentary elections, MP Hadi Hbeish said.

Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh announced Friday in a statement that the Central Bank will continue to allow commercial banks to purchase U.S. dollars from it at the Sayrafa platform exchange rate.

U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Dorothy Shea on Friday met with Prime Minister Najib Miqati and conveyed to him “an official written communication from the U.S. Department of the Treasury” that she said “answers to some of the concerns that the (Lebanese) authorities have” regarding regional energy deals.

Democratic Gathering Bloc MP Hadi Abou El-Hassan, said that President Michel Aoun instead of “lecturing” the dialogue boycotters, should have addressed “his ally,” which is “the main party disrupting the country.”

He added that “the one who had disrupted the country for 9 years out of his 16 years of management, shouldn’t accuse people of arrogance and of disrupting dialogue.”

The Lebanese lira made a major recovery against the dollar on Friday, after the central bank allowed commercial banks to purchase dollars from it at the Sayrafa platform exchange rate.

The media advisor of former Prime Minister Saad Hariri, Hussein Al-Wajeh, accused the FPM of "suffering from paranoia."

"It is very saddening for the presidency to reach a phase of complete denial of the chaos it has plunged the country into," Wajeh said in a tweet, criticizing a statement by President Michel Aoun.

Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh on Thursday hit out at Mount Lebanon Attorney General Judge Ghada Aoun over recent actions and tweets.