Sri Lanka economic crisis

The economic crisis has prompted an acute shortage of essential items like food, medicine, cooking gas and other fuel, toilet paper and even matches, ...

Among their catastrophic policies were tax cuts that shrunk revenue already hit by a drop in tourism income because of the pandemic, and a ban on chemical fertilizer to promote organic farming, which devastated farmers. The queues are getting longer by the day and there will be many health risks to people staying in queues,” Mahanama wrote on Twitter. We need to look after each other during these difficult times.”