COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Manjula Wijesuriya had COVID-19, but his friends and family say that’s not what killed him. When the 51-year-old tutor suffered a heart attack in late July, his loved ones rushed ...

Since May 2020, the COVID-19 Emergency Response and Health Systems Preparedness Project (ERHSP) has helped the Government of Sri Lanka respond to emergency needs by providing essential medical ...

BOHITIYAWA, Sri Lanka — Getting online school lessons for residents of a remote Sri Lankan village requires a trek through dense bushes sometimes visited by leopards and elephants. The teachers and ...

(New York) – Human Rights Watch joined 10 other organizations on July 28, 2021 in issuing the following statement seeking the release of the lawyer and activist Hejaaz Hizbullah and others held under ...

Sri Lanka ends 2021 with foreign currency reserves in hand (US$1.6 billion) to support a month of imports. For much of the year, a shortage of dollars saw uncleared essential imports piling up at the ...

(New York) – Sri Lanka’s police are increasingly killing and abusing people under cover of the Covid-19 pandemic measures and an anti-drug campaign, Human Rights Watch said today. Recent police abuses ...

COLOMBO, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Workers' remittances, a major source of foreign exchange in Sri Lanka, dropped to a 10-year low at $5.49 billion in 2021, central bank data showed on Friday, as the country ...

Sri Lanka is facing a food crisis. In 2021, The Sri Lankan rupee fell against the US dollar by 7.5 percent, triggering food inflation of 10 percent. On August 30, 2021, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya ...

COLOMBO, Oct. 7, 2021— Sri Lanka’s economy is projected to grow by 3.3 percent in 2021, but the medium-term outlook is clouded by pre-existing macroeconomic weaknesses and the economic scarring from ...

The problem isn’t the availability of food items or essential goods, but skyrocketing prices of essentials due to stockpiling. For weeks headlines have hit news platforms around the world that Sri ...