The president of Sri Lanka agreed to step down later this month, after protesters stormed the presidential home and office in a dramatic escalation of anger over the government’s handling of a deepening economic crisis. Here’s how Sri Lanka got here.
he too would give up his post “to make way for an All-Party Government.” The president fled to safety Friday ahead of the protests, which saw dozens of people injured in clashes with police.
Saturday’s demonstrations were the latest in a months-long protest movement sparked by an unprecedented economic crisis in the South Asian nation. Fuel has almost run out, food prices and hunger have spiked and the country defaulted on its foreign debt repayment. The turmoil has felled the
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