2 Protesters stand on top of Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe 's office, demanding he resign after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country amid economic crisis in Colombo, July ...

In April 2021, then-president Gotabaya Rajapaksa abruptly banned imports of chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides, in an attempt to preserve Sri Lanka’s fast-depleting foreign currency ...