Famine looms in Sri Lanka. The number of people in need doubled over the past six months, the United Nations reports. Two-thirds of Sri Lankan families say they cannot meet their household food needs.
Asian Access holds its annual Global Summit at a secured location in Asia this week. We’re not revealing the event’s location because Gospel workers attend from dozens of Asian countries, some of which are hostile to Christianity.
Food insecurity in Sri Lanka will get worse without urgent assistance, aid agencies warn. The World Food Programme issued a joint statement with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. On top of economic woes, the country has seen two poor harvests.
On Friday, Sri Lanka’s government will describe the country’s economic woes in detail on a call with International Monetary Fund creditors. Officials struck a preliminary debt relief deal earlier this month.
Last week, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a loan to Sri Lanka of nearly $3 billion. In theory, the loan will help alleviate Sri Lanka’s ongoing financial crisis – one of the worst in the nation’s history.
Sri Lanka is in talks with the International Monetary Fund about a bailout package. IMF officials expect to visit the South Asian nation later this month.
Sri Lanka’s former president hides behind diplomacy in Southeast Asia as people in his country starve.
Ranil Wickremesinghe has been elected President of Sri Lanka. Parliament voted him in 134-82. He had served as the Prime Minister since May. Now, he will finish out the term in 2024.
Church members and community leaders had gathered for prayer following a series of murders in their town in western Kenya when a young man burst in and confessed to raping and killing six young women.
Eleven countries across Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Europe face a heightened risk of food shortages over the next few years. The Russian invasion of Ukraine slashed wheat imports to several of these countries.
On July 9, Sri Lankan protestors stormed the president’s official residence in the capital, Colombo.
Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe says the island nation is bankrupt. He does not expect an immediate bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The inflation rate will soon reach 60 percent.
