Gotabaya Rajapaksa has fled Sri Lanka ahead of his ... student Reshani Samarakoon told the BBC that the former president's exile offered "hope that in the future we can eventually become a ...
Sri Lanka's new President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is a man who divides opinion. On the one hand, he is hailed by supporters for playing a crucial role in crushing the Tamil Tiger separatist rebels and ...
Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena said in a televised statement that he informed Rajapaksa that parliamentary leaders had met and decided to request he leave office, and the president agreed.
The primary demand of the 2022 protests – the removal of Gotabaya Rajapaksa from his role as president – has been achieved, but the secondary demand of “system change” has not. One year ...
Parliamentarians will vote on Wednesday to decide who will succeed ousted President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled the island last week. The economic crisis was made at home, a result of structural ...
Colombo (Sri Lanka) July 15 (ANI): Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa tendered his resignation on July 14. The embattled President sent his resignation letter through an email to ...
TASS/. The leaders of Sri Lankan political parties that participated in a meeting headed by the parliament speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena, decided that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa should resign ...
The 74-year-old Sri Lanka People's Party (SLPP) leader was administered the oath of office by his younger brother and President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the Rajamaha Viharaya in Kelaniya, a north ...