Image: Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. (AP/ File)
In Sri Lanka, with the longest history of universal suffrage in Asia, every election excites the nation, and...
Sri Lanka Brief Presidential Election Update No 02.
Polarised vote
The president elect Gotabaya Rajapaksa (GR) of SLPP and Sajith Premadasa (SP) of NDF respectively received...
Image: European Union (EU) election observers look on as election officials carry ballot boxes to be transferred to a main counting centre after the presidential...
Image: Gotabaya Rajapaksa met with India's external affairs minister S. Jaishankar on 20 Nov 2019.
The Indian government expects Sri Lanka’s new government led...
(Press Release 23.11.19) Regarding the removal of the Director of the Criminal Investigation Department,
SSP Shani Abeysekara As Sri Lanka Young Journalists’ Association (YJA), we...
In his inaugural speech the newly elected President Gotabaya Rajapaksa gave an assurance that he will be the president of all, including all ethnicities...
Sri Lanka’s eighth presidential election held last Sunday has produced an outcome that has surprised the winners, the losers as well as the observers....
Sri Lanka’s newly elected president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his government must demonstrate that they will uphold human rights and rule of law, and ensure...
Asian Election observers faulted both private and State Media organisations for favouring their chosen candidates during the elections and suggested they should self-regulate themselves.
The...
With Gotabaya Rajapaska claiming victory in the presidential elections, how does one understand the Northern vote?
The Northern electoral districts of Jaffna and Vanni...
Image: Gotabaya Rajapaksa is one of the nine Rajapaksa brothers who have dominated Sri Lankan politics. Photograph: Eranga Jayawardena/AP.
Even his own family nickname him “The Terminator”.
Gotabaya...
In the wake of his younger brother Gotabaya Rajapaksa's victory in the presidential election 2019, former strong man Mahinda Rajapaksa issued a statement on...
Image: Gotabaya Rajapaksa released an interview with Iraj on 14th November.
Tough all campaigning for the 2019 presidential election came to an end at midnight...
Image: A protest against the attack on Lasantha Wijeratne.
Freelance journalist Lasantha Wijeratne became the recent addition to the long list of Sri Lankan journalists...
Editorial, Daily FT.
The Election Commission is one of the key institutions central to Sri Lanka’s democracy. Sri Lankans have stayed true to their power...
Voters still reeling from the devastating Easter Sunday attacks must choose between two powerful political families.
Hannah Ellis-Petersen South Asia correspondent./theguardian.
What is happening?
Sri Lanka goes...
13 November 2019, Colombo, Sri Lanka: The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) and the Centre for Monitoring Election Violence (CMEV) are deeply concerned with recent...
FILE- In this May 23, 2008 file photo, Sri Lankan journalists shout slogans during a protest demanding the government investigate into abduction and assault...
Image: Sri Lanka's elections chief Mahinda Deshapriya displays ballot boxes that will be used in the upcoming presidential election in Colombo, Sri Lanka on Thursday, October 31,...
I condemn in the strongest possible terms your desperate attempt to drag the Venerable Mahanayake Theras of the Three Nikayas into your fearmongering election...
Brigadier K. K. S. Parakum of Mechanized Infantry Regiment has entered the Sampathnuwara District Hospital a few days ago and threatened the medical staff...
Dear Secretary Pompeo:
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