Sri Lanka is facing its worst economic crisis since 1948
Colombo:
Sri Lanka’s opposition has dismissed President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s invitation to join a unity government as “nonsensical” and instead demanded he resigns over the country’s worsening shortages of food, fuel and medicines.
Mr Rajapaksa’s overture came as armed troops looked to quell more demonstrations over what the government acknowledges is the country’s worst economic crisis since independence from Britain in 1948.
Every member of Sri Lanka’s cabinet except the president and his elder brother, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, resigned late Sunday.
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Sri Lanka’s opposition on Monday dismissed President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s invitation to join a unity government as “nonsensical” and instead demanded he resign over the country’s worsening shortages of food, fuel and medicines.
Rajapaksa’s overture came as armed troops looked to quell more demonstrations over what the government acknowledges is the country’s worst economic crisis since independence from Britain in 1948.
