🙏🏽 ⁦TRT World⁩ ⁦TRT World Now⁩ for drawing on ⁦our statement (⁦Institute of Political Economy⁩ ⁦DebtJustice.bsky.social⁩ ) + colleague ⁦Thiruni Kelegama⁩ for this thoughtful 📺 journalism. appreciate highlighting the complex vulnerabilities 🇱🇰 youtube.com/watch?v=Cr5wWw…

Important on-the-ground thread on deficiencies in govt and estate companies’ response to #CycloneDitwah damage in #Badulla - and likely much of hill country.

The early reviews are in and the draft PSTA is definitely not a popular favourite. The next month will tell us whether the govt’s promised public consultation process is a real one or just box-ticking. We will also learn if European External Action Service - EEAS 🇪🇺 #GSP+ conditionalities make any difference.

#SriLanka: "Assessments show households eating less, skipping meals, borrowing money, selling assets, and relying on neighbours or religious institutions for food. These are not coping strategies, they are warning signs." FAO rep for SL tells DailyFT ft.lk/opinion/Don-t-…

Excellent overview DailyFT on UN in Sri Lanka Humanitarian Plan providing life saving support to those most affected #CyclonDitwah aiming at delivering $35m assistance until April 30th. We need urgent support for agriculture, health and early recovery: ft.lk/news/35-m-Huma…

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Even if only for pragmatic political purposes of preserving some of its credibility as a force for reform and democratic system change, the NPP Srilanka would be wise to heed the near unanimous rejection of the draft #PSTA from pro-reform civil society forces.

🪔 Still searching for justice - 20 years on from Trinco 5 killings On this day 20 years ago, Manoharan Ragihar, Yogarajah Hemachchandra, Logitharajah Rohan, Thangathurai Sivanantha and Shanmugarajah Gajendran were summarily executed by Sri Lanka's Special Task Force, whilst

🧵The world is careening into a dangerous new era. From Gaza to Ukraine to Sudan, here are the ten conflicts to pay attention to in 2026. ⬇

With the arrival of 2026, an event was held at the beachfront in Trincomalee to the memory of 5 Tamil students - Manoharan Ragihar, Yogarajah Hemachchandra, Logitharajah Rohan, Thangathurai Sivanantha, & Shanmugarajah Gajendran- killed at the start of another new year 20 yrs ago.

Our Senior Analyst, Andes Region, Phil Gunson, offered a first look at the fallout from President Maduro’s capture. Speaking with Al Jazeera English, he compared the capture of Maduro to the fall of Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega on January 3, 1990, which was also orchestrated by the

‘Risks of violence in any post-Maduro scenario should not be downplayed. The U.S. decision to go it alone has sent a chilling message across the region.’ Our recent statement shows why the U.S should be wary of the fallout following events in Venezuela. crisisgroup.org/latin-america-…

🇻🇪 Most Venezuelans will welcome seeing the back of President Maduro. But today's military action to remove him carries enormous risks going forward. In our Ten Conflicts to Watch in 2026 list, we explain the perils of regime change in Venezuela. ⬇️ crisisgroup.org/visual-explain…

I was briefed this morning on the U.S. military capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, as well as their planned imprisonment in federal custody here in New York City. Unilaterally attacking a sovereign nation is an act of war and a violation of federal and

So many people keep interpreting Hambantota port deal as a debt equity swap even after many research articles proving it otherwise. It is NOT a debt- equity swap. Port lease was largely build up USD reserves, and port loans had no connections with the lease. Loans did not change.

Sri Lanka's latest anti terror draft - Protection of the State against Terrorism Act - by the NPP government come under more fire by leading lawyer Kishali Pinto Jayawardene as one that 'empowers the national security state at the expense of the constitution'. Via The Sunday Times (SL)

PM says constitutional reforms have begun but gives no details. The 2015 process, led by a 21-MP Steering Committee, today only 4 remain in Parliament (Hakeem, Rishad, Bimal Rathnayake, Mano Ganesan) and 1 is President (AKD), remains unfinished. NPP promised to build on it.

“Venezuelans could end up being worse off after the departure of President Maduro. It’s early days. This is not a moment [for] opening the champagne. This is the beginning.” Phil Gunson on why the U.S. capture of Maduro has plunged the country even deeper into uncertainty.