Ranil Wickremesinghe becomes the first former Sri Lankan head of state to be arrested in a country deeply damaged by corruption and lack of accountability.
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Sri Lanka elects new president in watershed moment for the country.
Could the country now face a return to civil war?
Sri Lanka’s authoritarian former president failed to persuade his country to have him back. Could it herald a new era of progress?
Sri Lanka’s president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, has been defeated in the country’s historic presidential elections. Sri Lankans are shocked at the scale and manner of Rajapaksa’s defeat, which has brought his…
When delegates assemble in Colombo later this month for the Commonwealth Heads of Government (CHOGM), much of the talk at the summit will be of “moving forward” and of “reconciliation”. The government…
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