Colombo, Apr 6 (EFE).- Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaska will not step down under any circumstances, the chief government whip told the parliament on Wednesday despite mass street protests calling for his resignation amid the ongoing crisis in the country. The protests continued into Wednesday amid beefed up security in capital city of Colombo, a …
Failing to secure opposition support to form an all-party cabinet, the Gotabaya Rajapaska government would lose its majority when the Parliament is convened on Tuesday, a ruling coalition MP has predicted.
As Sri Lanka is enveloped by its worst economic crisis in living memory, restaurants and other businesses across the island nation are being pushed to the brink by acute shortages of fuel and other essentials. Most of the country's cabinet - except President Gotabaya Rajapaska and his brother, the prime minister - offered to resign en masse on Sunday (April.
Several journalists were assaulted and at least six were taken into custody by police personnel from Sri Lanka’s Special Task Force (STF) on March 31, while covering a protest in Mirihana, within the Nugegoda suburb of Colombo. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its Sri Lankan affiliates, the Federation of Media Employees Trade Union (FMETU) , Sri Lanka Working Journalists Association (SLWJA) and the Free Media Movement (FMM), strongly condemn the journalists’ assaults and detainments and urge Sri Lanka’s government to allow journalists report independently and without fear.
Failing to secure opposition support to form an all-party cabinet, the Gotabaya Rajapaska government would lose its majority when the Parliament is convened on Tuesday, a ruling coalition MP has predicted.Udaya Gammanpila, the former Energy .