In April 2022, the Sri Lankan government announced that it was defaulting on its debt for the first time since independence.

Thirty-eight candidates are running for president of the Asian nation of Sri Lanka, which is still recovering from a 2022 economic collapse. Its incumbent president faces a tight race.

Ten years ago, Boursiquot and his wife Marguerite Baril-Boursiquot, both Haitian, did what many in the country’s burgeoning ...

More than three dozen candidates are vying to lead Sri Lanka out of an economic collapse that led to the 2022 ouster of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.

But as they do so they must tread carefully, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said at an ...

Mr. Wickremesinghe, 75, a six-time former prime minister, is a political survivor. His elevation to the presidency in 2022, ...

Millions of Sri Lankans cast their votes on Saturday to select a new president who will face the task of cementing the South ...

Cash-strapped Sri Lanka began voting for its next president Saturday in an effective referendum on an unpopular International ...

An international coalition led by the World Bank and the African Development Bank (AfDB) aims to raise $90 billion to provide electricity to 300 million Africans by 2030. The program focuses on clean ...

Sri Lankans vote for the country's next president in an effective referendum on an unpopular International Monetary Fund ...

Cash-strapped Sri Lanka was voting for its next president Saturday in an effective referendum on an unpopular International ...