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The 2024 Sri Lankan presidential election is scheduled to be held on 21 September 2024, where voters will choose a president for a five-year term. [2] [3] Incumbent President Ranil Wickremesinghe is seeking re-election as an independent candidate, making him the first sitting president to run for re-election since Mahinda Rajapaksa in 2015.
The Sri Lanka Opinion Tracker Survey by Institute for Health Policy (IHP) shows Dissanayake leading in voting preferences at 36%, followed by opposition leader Sajith Premadasa of the Samagi Jana ...
t. e. Foreign relations of Sri Lanka refers to the diplomatic and commercial relations between Sri Lanka and other countries. Sri Lanka has stressed its principle of "friendship towards all, enmity towards none" in its diplomacy. Sri Lanka since the 1950s has followed a non-aligned foreign policy and does not take sides with major powers. [1]
Sri Lanka's presidential candidates wrapped up their campaigning on Wednesday, 48 hours before the election, pledging to fix the island country's ailing economy that is struggling to recover from ...
The 2022 Sri Lankan protests, commonly known as Aragalaya (Sinhala: අරගලය, lit. 'The Struggle'), were a series of mass protests that began in March 2022 against the government of Sri Lanka. The government was heavily criticized for mismanaging the Sri Lankan economy, which led to a subsequent economic crisis involving severe inflation ...
At least 47 people are dead and 85 others injured following heavy flooding and landslides in northern Tanzania, authorities said Monday. The government has deployed the military to help rescue ...
The 2022 Sri Lankan political crisis was a political crisis in Sri Lanka due to the power struggle between President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the people of Sri Lanka. It was fueled by the anti-government protests and demonstrations by the public due to the economic crisis in the country .
July 22, 2024 at 5:01 AM. DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan has fired two senior members of government including the foreign minister in a mini-cabinet reshuffle ...