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Ayeshea Perera - BBC News and Joel Guinto - BBC News. September 22, 2024 at 9:46 PM. ... a political scientist at the Open University of Sri Lanka, told the BBC Sinhala Service.
Gavin Butler - BBC News. September 22, 2024 at 7:56 PM. Anura Kumara Dissanayake positioned himself as a candidate for change [Getty Images] Left-leaning politician Anura Kumara Dissanayake has ...
Gavin Butler - BBC News. September 20, 2024 at 4:05 PM. Sri Lanka's former president fled the country in 2022 after months-long protests [Getty Images] Sri Lankans will elect a new president in ...
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 ...
Anura Kumara Dissanayake. Dissanayaka Mudiyanselage Anura Kumara Dissanayake[ a ] (born 24 November 1968), commonly referred to by his initials AKD, is a Sri Lankan politician who became the tenth president of Sri Lanka on September 23, 2024. He is the current party leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) and the National People's Power.
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 .
A four-year, $2.9 billion IMF bailout, secured in March 2023, has helped Sri Lanka boost reserves, stem a fall in its currency and tame runaway inflation. It also set the groundwork for debt ...
The 2024 Sri Lankan presidential election was the ninth presidential election in the country’s history and was held on 21 September 2024. [4] [5] Incumbent President Ranil Wickremesinghe ran for re-election as an independent candidate, making him the first sitting president to run for re-election since Mahinda Rajapaksa in 2015.