Tag: Sri Lanka

The UN reported that four out of five people have started skipping meals as they cannot afford high prices

The Catholic bishops called for “necessary changes to the economic policies as well as to the Constitution”

Sri Lankans are using groups on Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter to offer mutual aid as shops run out of basics

Motorists around the South Asian country are forced to spend hours or even days waiting for rationed fuel at gas stations

Every year, on May 18, Sri Lankan Tamils mark Mullaivaikkal Memorial Day commemorating those who died in the civil war that ended in 2009

The Central Bank governor said it was critical that a new administration take charge by Friday or the country would suffer a catastrophe

Among those injured in the violent dispersals of the demonstrations were Catholic and Anglican Church leaders

Sri Lanka has suffered months of blackouts and dire shortages of food, fuel and medicines in its worst economic crisis since independence

The pope made the appeal in an address to Italy’s Sri Lankan community marking the third anniversary of the terrorist attacks

Regular blackouts, acute shortages of food and fuel and record inflation have sparked increasing public discontent in the country