Sri Lanka Economic Crisis Highlights: New PM Ranil Wickremesinghe inducts 4 ministers into his Cabinet

Sri Lanka Economic Crisis Highlights:  Sri Lanka lifted a nationwide curfew for 12 hours on Saturday, further easing tight curbs as new Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe sought to form a government after clashes with anti-government groups killed nine people, Reuters reported. More than a month of predominantly peaceful protests against the government turned violent this week after supporters of former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa stormed an an

A Sri Lankan court on Friday was moved to direct the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to immediately arrest former prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and six others for alleged criminal intimidation and aiding and abetting attacks on peaceful anti-government protesters here this week, according to PTI.

Meanwhile, most of the Opposition parties in Sri Lanka on Friday announced that they would not join the interim government led by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s but agreed to support its economic policies from outside to help the debt-ridden island nation’s early recovery.