Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake will undertake a three-day visit to India from Sunday, his first overseas visit after assuming office. During his visit, Dissanayake will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Droupadi Murmu. He will be accompanied by Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath and Deputy Minister of Finance Anil Jayantha Fernando. Dissanayaka’s visit […]
By Sara Hassan At JJ Rawlings Avenue in the area of Adenta in Ghana’s capital Accra, 36-year-old Rabiatu Akamim readied meals for her customers. Two years ago, she traded her underpaying corporate communication job to focus on her food joint. Young entrepreneurs like Akamim are struggling with Ghana’s soaring fuel prices, rising food costs and […]
By Agence France-Presse Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake thanked voters Friday for delivering his leftist coalition a landslide victory in snap parliamentary elections that repudiated establishment parties blamed for triggering an economic crisis. Dissanayake, a self-avowed Marxist, swept September presidential elections on a promise to combat graft and recover stolen assets, two years after […]