Countries already under pressure from the economic fall-out of the COVID-19 pandemic, risk seeing the same economic turmoil and human misery as Sri Lanka, with the war in Ukraine dragging on, unless …
Gas lines and scuffles: Sri Lanka faces humanitarian crisis
Chamila Nilanthi is tired of all the waiting. The 47-year-old mother of two spent three days lining up to get kerosene in the Sri Lankan …
Gas lines and scuffles: Sri Lanka faces humanitarian crisis
Chamila Nilanthi is tired of all the waiting. The 47-year-old mother of two spent three days lining up to get kerosene in the Sri Lankan …
Sri Lanka Parliament speaker: President to resign Wednesday
The speaker of Sri Lanka’s Parliament says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has agreed to resign as of Wednesday. Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena said in a televised statement Saturday that he informed Rajapaksa …
Sri Lanka Parliament speaker: President to resign Wednesday
The speaker of Sri Lanka’s Parliament says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has agreed to resign as of Wednesday. Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena said in a televised statement Saturday that he informed Rajapaksa …
Protesters storm president’s residence in Sri Lanka
STORY: Thousands of protesters in Sri Lanka stormed the president’s official residence on Saturday (July 9).They’re angry over the country’s worst economic crisis for seven decades.Footage from local …
Sri Lanka Live Updates: Political Leaders Say They Ask President to Step Down
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, whose family has dominated politics in Sri Lanka for much of the past two decades, was asked by the country’s political leaders to step down on Saturday after months of …
Sri Lanka Protesters Storm President’s House, Set Fire To Prime Minister’s Residence
Thousands of protesters stormed the Sri Lankan president’s official residence and set the prime minister’s private residence on fire in Colombo on Saturday as anger intensified over the country’s …
Home of Sri Lankan PM set on fire by protesters
Protesters in Sri Lanka have stormed the president’s official residence and set the prime minister’s house on fire amid calls for them to step down.Neither the PM nor the president were thought to be …
Sri Lanka: President Gotabaya Rajapaksa flees, PM Ranil Wickremesinghe ‘quits’
In a day of high drama, angry protesters on Saturday stormed and occupied the Sri Lankan president’s residence, forcing Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee, and set fire to Prime Minister Ranil …