Sri Lanka's new prime minister said on Monday the crisis-hit nation was down to its last day of petrol, as the country's power minister told citizens not to join the lengthy fuel queues that have galvanized weeks of anti-government protests
Ranil Wickremesinghe, appointed prime minister on Thursday, said in an address to the nation the country urgently needed $75 million in foreign exchange to pay for essential imports."At the moment, we only have petrol stocks for a single day. The next couple of months will be the most difficult ones of our lives," he said."We must prepare ourselves to make some sacrifices and face the challenges of this period.
They have also labelled Wickremesinghe a stooge and criticized his appointment of four cabinet ministers, all members of the political party run by the Rajapaksa brothers.Sri Lanka's prime minister resigns amid protests over economic crisisWickremesinghe said on Monday he took the role for the good of the country.In Colombo, the commercial capital, long queues of auto rickshaws, the most popular means of transport in the city, lined up at gas stations in a fruitless wait for fuel.
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