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A year after Anura Kumara Dissanayake (AKD) won the presidential election and his party, the National People’s Power (NPP), won a super-majority in the parliamentary elections, the country has made ...
News Sri Lanka » Northern » Government: From Partner to Patron: How India is influencing control over Sri Lanka’s Northern Province
The Northern Province, comprises Jaffna, Kilinochchi, Mullaitivu, Mannar, and Vavuniya. India is heavily influencing Northern society in multiple ways. Many of these post-war partnerships are turning ...
News Sri Lanka » Northern » Government: One Year On: Sri Lanka’s Leftist NPP Government Falls Short of Expectations
A year after the leftist National People’s Power (NPP) coalition won an unprecedented supermajority in Sri Lanka’s November 2024 parliamentary elections—with support from both the majority Sinhala and ...
News Sri Lanka » Northern » Government: Sri Lanka: Survivors of Cyclone Ditwah in war-ravaged Northern Province accuse government of negligence
World Socialist Web Site reporters visited the village of Iyankoyiladi, Murasumottai in the Kilinochchi District, located in Sri Lanka’s war-ravaged Northern Province, to speak with survivors of ...
News Sri Lanka » Northern » Government: Mass protests in Sri Lanka’s northern and eastern provinces against Wickremesinghe’s Anti-Terrorism Bill
Sri Lanka’s war-ravaged northern and eastern provinces were brought to a standstill on Tuesday by a mass hartal (strike and business closure) in protest against President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s new ...
News Sri Lanka » Northern » Government: The Policies of Sri Lanka’s New Government: a Historic Opportunity Lost
On the right, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, President of Sri Lanka. On the left, Dr. S. Jaishankar, India’s Minister of External Affairs. Photo: MEAphotogallery, Flickr, CC, Can you give us a quick ...
News Sri Lanka » Northern » Government: Sri Lanka’s blue carbon ecosystems at risk as government seeks way out of economic crisis
Vidattaltivu Nature Reserve in northern Sri Lanka is an important coastal ecosystem that contains all the main blue carbon habitats, from mangroves to seagrass meadows to salt marshes and tidal flats.
News Sri Lanka » Northern » Government: Q&A: Northern Sri Lanka emerges from conflict but challenges remain
GENEVA, April 7 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation have just released a report that examines the impact of a cash grant provided by UNHCR to help ...
News Sri Lanka » Northern » Government: UNHCR welcomes resumption of return movements in northern Sri Lanka
GENEVA, April 27 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency on Tuesday welcomed the resumption of government-led return movements in northern Sri Lanka, following a three-week pause for the general election, the ...
News Sri Lanka » Northern » Government: Sri Lanka: New Government Pledges Economic Reform, Justice
(Bangkok) – The government of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, which took office on September 23, 2024, has promised to address longstanding human rights issues that have plunged Sri Lanka into ...