Sri Lanka's acting president imposes state of emergency as IMF talks conclude
Ranil Wickremesinghe became acting president on Friday after his predecessor, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, fled abroad and resigned after monthslong mass protests over the country's economic collapse.
He said that relief was being provided to people and steps taken to resolve shortages of fuel and cooking gas. There was no immediate response from political parties to his latest comments, but they have been working on a unity government. Sri Lanka has run short of money to pay for imports of basic necessities such as food, fertilizer, medicine and fuel for its 22 million people. Its rapid economic decline has been all the more shocking because prior to the crisis, the economy had been expanding with a growing, comfortable middle class.
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