The International Monetary Fund is lending Sri Lanka $3bn (£2.4bn) to help it deal with its worst economic crisis in its history as an independent nation. Soaring prices, shortages of essential ...

Sri Lanka is an island nation off southern India: It won independence from British rule in 1948.Three ethnic groups - Sinhalese, Tamil and Muslim - make up 99% of the country's 22 million population.

F or sri lanka’s politicians September 27th was meant to be the light at the end of the tunnel. After more than a year of economic free fall—in which the former president fled protests, gdp ...