COLOMBO, May 16 — Sri Lanka’s new prime minister will address the crisis-hit nation later today, as the country’s power minister told citizens not to join the lengthy fuel queues that have galvanised weeks of anti-government protests.
The crisis led to widespread protests against President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his family, culminating with the resignation of his elder brother Mahinda as prime minister last week after fighting between government supporters and protesters killed 9 people and wounded 300. Hit hard by the pandemic, rising oil prices and populist tax cuts by the Rajapaksas, Sri Lanka is in the midst of a crisis unparalleled since its independence in 1948.
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