Etiket: Lanka
Economic crisis | Sri Lanka almost running out of drugs, warn doctors
(Colombo) Sri Lankan doctors warned on Sunday that they were almost out of life-saving medicines, stressing that the economic crisis was likely to claim more victims on the island than…
Sri Lanka unrest: new government and protests expected
Sri Lanka’s president was due to appoint a new government on Monday as security forces braced for possible violence with further protests over worsening food, fuel and medicine shortages. •…
Protests in Sri Lanka: the army on the streets, social networks blocked
Social networks were blocked in Sri Lanka on Sunday and armed soldiers deployed in the streets in an attempt to quell protests against President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, fueled by the unprecedented…
Sri Lanka deploys military to quell protests
Armed troops with sweeping powers to arrest suspects were deployed to Sri Lanka on Saturday, hours after the president declared a state of emergency over escalating protests against him. Gotabaya…
Sri Lanka is going through its worst economic crisis since its independence in 1948
This is unheard of since 1948, the date of Sri Lanka’s independence. The former Ceylon, off the coast of India, is going through its worst economic crisis: the Covid-19 and…
solidarity and mutual aid in Sri Lanka
We are in the village of Audangawa, in central Sri Lanka. It’s a day of celebration, we inaugurate, that morning, the third computer center of the association “Rebuild and Live”,…
LANKA features Yvonne Pochelurekin. Bidarteko Technogunean.
Yvonne Pochelu errezibitu digu LANKA enpresaren bulegoetan Bidarteko Izarbel Teknogunean 3 lagun dira sortzaileak, Jean Louis Iratzoki desiñatzailea, Mito tolosako komunikazaile enpresa eta Yvonne Pochelu. Beraz dugu hemen, mugaz gaindiko…
Sri Lanka | Food prices soar
(Colombo) Sri Lanka’s food prices rose a record 22.1 percent in December, official figures released on Saturday showed as the country struggles to finance imports to cope with an acute…