The Latest Breaking News from Gotabaya Rajapaksa

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was appointed acting president after the crisis-hit country declared a nationwide state of emergency on Wednesday following President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's flight from the country.

Editorial: Mass protests forced the president to announce he will resign. But the years of his family’s corruption and incompetence have taken their toll

Protesters reject an all-party government, saying it will be a way for the powerful clan to remain in power.

The Speaker of Parliament may publicly announce it to the nation on Wednesday. Read further on Dynamite News:

Rajapaksa, 73, and his wife boarded a special air force flight bound for the Maldives, local officials have said

On July 9, 2022, thousands of Sri Lankans, exasperated by the country's economic crisis, stormed the residence of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and other places linked to power. The situation is still uncertain in the country, but the movement is ongoing: in the capital, Colombo, protesters have turned several of these…

Sri Lanka's former finance minister Basil Rajapaksa, who is the youngest brother of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, was stopped from boarding a flight to Dubai on Monday evening, local media reported. Read more on Dynamite News:

Officials say they prevented Basil Rajapaksa from flying out of the country as anger rises against the powerful family.

Sri Lankan immigration officials stopped the president's brother and former finance minister Basil Rajapaksa from flying out of the country on Tuesday, as anger mounted over the island's worst economic crisis in decades.