By Aanya Wipulasena Colombo, Sep 3 (EFE) .- Sri Lanka woke up this Saturday with former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa back on the island after nearly two months of self-exile abroad, a news which came as a shock to many after they managed to oust the leader through massive demonstrations over his handling of the severe …
By Aanya Wipulasena Colombo, Aug 19 (EFE).- Tourism in Sri Lanka has yet to recover fully from three consecutive blows inflicted by the 2019 Easter bombs, two pandemic years, and the island’s worst economic crisis in decades this year. After more than 20 years of civil war, which ended in 2009, the island of idyllic …
By Indira Guerrero and Aanya Wipulasena Colombo, July 26 (EFE).- While hundreds of cars queue up for days in front of closed gas stations in Colombo, a cellar at the back of a funeral home serves as a storehouse for fuel, sold in soda bottles by three-wheeled rickshaw drivers running a black market. A liter …
By Aanya Wipulasena Colombo, June 16 (EFE).- Underprivileged Sri Lankan farmers are facing a severe shortage of chemical fertilizers as the island nation navigates through a crippling economic crisis. The deficit comes more than a year after the government in April last year banned all chemical fertilizers which lasted for over seven months. Kamani Priyangika, …
By Aanya Wipulasena Colombo, June 8 (EFE).- Samanthi Priyanthika, a 35-year-old housewife, has not fed milk to her toddler for months. The cost of milk powder has more than doubled since Sri Lanka announced that there was not enough foreign currency for imports. Priyanthika has now cut down on meals. Her family only has two …