Colombo, Sept 19, 2024 (AFP) - AFP Special Advisory: Sri Lanka's first polls since economic crisis

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2024-09-19

Sri Lanka on Saturday holds its first presidential election since an unprecedented economic crisis that bankrupted the country and sparked a popular revolt that forced its leader to temporarily flee abroad. President Ranil Wickremesinghe took office in 2022 at the peak of huge protests over food, fuel and medicine shortages that ousted his predecessor Gotabaya Rajapaksa. He set about to repair the island nation's tattered finances through an In......

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