Police fired tear gas to disperse lots of college students looking to hurricane the Sri Lankan president’s domestic Sunday because the authorities provided an olive branch to demonstrators disturbing his resignation. Anti-revolt squads used water cannons accompanied via tear fuel, as protesters pulled down yellow iron barricades across an avenue leading to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s … Read more
The new prime minister of Sri Lanka won crucial support from the island’s two main opposition parties on Monday, relieving pressure on the ruling Rajapaksa clan in the face of the island’s worsening economic crisis. The main opposition SJB party appeared to abandon its demand that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa resigns before joining a coalition to … Read more
Sri Lanka named the first ministers of a “unity” government tasked with rescuing the country from a crippling economic crisis, but which has so far failed to gain opposition support. Ranil Wickremesinghe, who was appointed Prime Minister on Thursday, has attempted to form a cross-party coalition to begin repairing the island nation’s shattered finances. However, … Read more
Sri Lanka’s new high minister struggled Friday to forge a harmonious government and forestall a forthcoming financial fall apart as opposition lawmakers refused to join his cabinet and demanded clean elections. Ranil Wickremesinghe became sworn in past due Thursday to navigate his us through the worst downturn in its records as an independent country, with … Read more
