Rajapaksa’s resignation accepted

COLOMBO (Sri Lanka), July 15 : Sri Lanka’s parliamentary speaker accepted President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s resignation on Friday (July 15) after he fled to Singapore to escape a popular uprising brought about by his country’s worst economic crisis in seven decades.

Sri Lanka’s President Rajapaksa flees country before scheduled resignation

COLOMBO (SRI LANKA), July 13 : Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country early on Wednesday (July 13), a government source told Reuters, hours before he was due to resign after widespread protests over his handling of a devastating economic crisis.