Sri Lanka

Gotabaya Rajapaksa Returns To Sri Lanka After Protest

September 3, 2022 4:22 am

According to reports reaching Africa Daily News, New York the ex-president of Sri Lanka, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, has returned to the country after earlier fleeing following massive demonstrations in July.

Mr. Rajapaksa traveled back home through Singapore after spending some time in Thailand on a temporary visa. He reportedly met a few Sri Lankan ministers at the airport as he returned.

Sri Lankans blame their government for the island’s worst economic crisis in history. A collapse in foreign currency led to dire shortages of food and fuel.

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Tension As Sri Lanka Police Fire Tear Gas To Disperse Protest

August 19, 2022 6:20 am

Sri Lanka police fired tear gas and water cannon on a small protest Thursday to break up the first demonstration since the crisis-hit island nation lifted a state of emergency.

An unprecedented economic collapse has sparked often huge anti-government rallies this year after months of hardship caused by shortages of essential goods, rolling blackouts, and spiralling inflation.

The government has curbed dissent by imposing a state of emergency giving security forces sweeping detention powers, but the ordinance lapsed overnight.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that several hundred students attempted to march to the city centre in Colombo for a …

Sri Lankan President Finally Submits Resignation Letter

Sri Lankan President Finally Resigns After Fleeing

July 15, 2022 4:00 am

The embattled President of Sri Lanka, Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Friday morning submitted a letter of resignation to the speaker of the country’s parliament, a spokesperson for the speaker revealed, hours after he fled to Singapore.

This announcement has triggered jubilation in the commercial capital Colombo where protesters massed outside the presidential secretariat, defying a city-wide curfew.

Crowds set off firecrackers, shouted slogans and danced ecstatically at the Gota Go Gama protest site, named mockingly after Rajapaksa’s first name.

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‘The whole country will celebrate today,’ Damitha …

‘Sinking’ Sri Lanka Appeals To Putin For Fuel, Tourists

July 7, 2022 4:25 am

According to Wednesday’s remarks from President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka has requested fuel from Russia and the resumption of tourist flights to assist the nation to weather its unprecedented economic crisis.

After running out of foreign cash to pay for imports, the island nation has endured months of outages, extreme inflation, and severe food and fuel shortages.

Rajapaksa claimed to have phoned with Vladimir Putin, his Russian counterpart, to request loaned fuel supplies and to ‘humbly’ ask for the resume of flights between Moscow and Colombo.

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We Have Run Out Of Petrol, Sri Lanka New PM Tells Citizens

May 17, 2022 4:19 am

Sri Lanka’s newly appointed prime minister has disclosed that the cash-strapped island nation has run out of petrol stock, even as he pointed out that the country desperately needed to obtain $75m in foreign exchange over the next few days to pay for essential imports, including medicine.

Speaking on Monday in an address to the nation, as the country suffers from fuel and medicine shortages Ranil Wickremesinghe lamented; ‘We have run out of petrol … At the moment, we only have petrol stocks for a single day’.

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Sri Lanka Forces Muslims To Cremate COVID-19 Victims

April 4, 2020 2:09 pm

The forced cremation of two COVID-19 infected Muslims in Sri Lanka has sent shock waves among the minority community, which accused the authorities of violating Islamic burial rites.

Bishrul Hafi Mohammed Joonus, a 73–year– old man from the capital Colombo who died of COVID-19, was the second Muslim to have been cremated in the Indian Ocean island nation, which has registered 151 cases so far.

Bishrul’s son Fayaz Joonus, 46, said his father who had a kidney disorder tested positive for the virus about two weeks ago. He died on April 1 and was cremated the following

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