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Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake defeated opposition leader Sajith Premadasa and incumbent Ranil Wickremesinghe to become Sri Lanka’s next president on Sunday, according to the country ...

The main ask — and the most popular chant — of the ‘Janatha Aragalaya’ [people’s struggle] witnessed in Sri Lanka last year was “Gota go home”. Scores of angry citizens, who took to ...

The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) is desperate to reach a consensus with political parties in the Opposition. But the Opposition is very much reluctant to do so due to the SLFP leader Maithripala ...

The executive board of the International Monetary Fund approved a loan worth $3 billion to help Sri Lanka through the financial crisis that has had the nation in a rolling economic and political ...

Angry demonstrators in Sri Lanka, already upset about the man who's taken over as the country's new president, were given more bad news on Friday after another unpopular politician was named as ...

However, the BASL has not always stood up to state and political actors during Sri Lanka’s many bouts of conflict and violence. It has been “a mix,” according to Pieris.

COLOMBO (REUTERS) - Sri Lanka's economic crisis looks to have finally toppled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Police use tear gas as Sri Lankan protesters storm prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe 's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, July 13, 2022.

Sri Lanka's economic crisis looks to have finally toppled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.

— Political Cartoons of Sri Lanka (@cartoonlka) July 11, 2022 Cartoonist Selvan of the Tamil daily Virakesari mocked Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s escape from the Presidential Palace.

Opposition leaders have yet to agree on who should replace its current leaders, while protesters who are angry over acute shortages of fuel, food, medicine and other necessities vow to stay put.