Sri Lanka names new PM in bid to address growing crisis
Colombo, Sri Lanka Reuters Sri Lanka appointed a new Prime Minister on Thursday, as its embattled President seeks a way out of the country’s worst economic crisis since independence that has sparked widespread protests. Ranil Wickremesinghe, a political veteran who has been Prime Minister of the island nation five times before, must try to address […]
A small tent camp in Sri Lankan city becomes focus of national protests
Colombo, Sri LankaReuters On a patch of grass near Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s office in the commercial capital Colombo, around two dozen tents have been erected in a small but growing camp that is becoming the focal point of national protests. Thousands of people have taken to the streets nearby and across the country […]