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Thousands of Sri Lankans took to the streets of Colombo on the Galle Face waterfront on Saturday to protest outside Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s secretariat against the current economic crisis for the eighth day in a row. Many artists and athletes became aware of the protest in Sri Lanka’s capital, which has been hit hard by an acute shortage of foreign funds, leading to a food crisis, sky-high costs and staff cuts.
In a wonderful move, the Sri Lankan military pledged to respect the Constitution and not interfere with the ongoing anti-government protests across the island country in opposition to the unprecedented economic crisis. The military said it would only interfere if the police “call us. “”
Earlier that day, Sri Lanka’s securities commission announced a five-day suspension of inventory trading after the Rajapaksa government raised interest rates and declared default on its foreign debt during the classic New Year’s festivities. and cricket’s most sensible stars, plus Arjuna Ranatunga and former captain Sanath Jayasuriya, joined the not-easy protests over the president’s resignation.
The unions, thousands of physical care workers, joined the protesters besieging the waterfront office of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, it is not easy for him and his government to resign, as they marched towards the Galle Face boardwalk.
The protests spread after Colombo announced it would seek a bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), as the country ran out of hard currency to finance even peak imports. Protesters were seen shouting slogans calling for the imprisonment of the president and prime minister. . The crowd chanted “Gota pass house, pass house Gota”.
Sri Lanka is in the midst of one of its worst economic crises since gaining independence from the UK in 1948. The island nation’s foreign exchange reserves have still been depleted, leaving its other 22 million people in widespread misery, unable to pay. for imports of staple foods and fuel. The country faces normal power outages and severe food and fuel shortages, in addition to record inflation.
After Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif insulted in Saudi Arabia, former Prime Minister Imran Khan said that an organization of “thieves” had been imposed in Pakistan, which happened in Masjid-e-Nabawi as a result of his actions. As on Thursday, some protesters, allegedly belonging to Pakistan’s Tehreek-e-Insaf, violated Masjid-e-Nabawi’s sanctity by chanting slogans loudly from Sharif’s delegation.
An IMF project is scheduled to arrive in Pakistan in May to resume policy discussions on the completion of the seventh review of the Extended Finance Facility (EFF), the duration of which Islamabad has asked the IMF to increase.
An MP from Britain’s ruling Conservative Party announced on Saturday that Neil Parish, who represents a seat in southwest England, would resign, after admitting he intentionally saw pornography on his cellphone in the House of Commons. Neil Parish, who represents a seat in southwest England, said he resigned and called a by-election in the Conservative stronghold after what he called an indefensible moment of “total madness. “
At least 23 other people were trapped under a collapsed construction in central China, authorities said Saturday, as rescuers dismantled the debris, brick by brick, in a bid to save survivors. The building, which housed a hotel, apartments and a movie theater, collapsed Friday afternoon in Changsha City, Hunan Province, leaving a gaping hole in a densely built street.
Russian forces have stolen “several hundred thousand tons” of grain from the regions of Ukraine they occupy, Ukraine’s deputy agriculture minister said on Saturday. Speaking on Ukrainian national television, Taras Vysotskiy expressed his fear that the maximum of what he said 1. 5 million tons of grain stored in the occupied territory may also be stolen by Russian forces. Agriculture Minister Mykola Solskyi said grain thefts increased in the past two weeks.
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