An anti-government demonstrator protests near the president’s office in Colombo. Photo: AFP
Can broke Sri Lanka avoid a ‘disorderly default’ and reach an IMF deal in time?
- Time is running out, but new PM Ranil Wickremesinghe is struggling to forge a unity government as strongman President Gotabaya Rajapaksa clings to power
- Colombo must also restructure debt with the likes of China, India and Japan, and set ‘a credible macroeconomic strategy’ amid widespread hunger and election pleas
An anti-government demonstrator protests near the president’s office in Colombo. Photo: AFP