Faced with serious financial problems, Sri Lanka has sought urgent help from the United Nations to rebuild its reserves of essential food products – the government warned on Friday (3) of the threat of famine in the country.
Sri Lanka is experiencing its worst crisis since independence and is facing severe fuel, food and medicine shortages due to a lack of foreign currency. In addition to all this, there is widespread inflation.
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said in a statement that the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) intends to implement “a crisis plan to respond to the food emergency” and will offer financial assistance to the agricultural sector.
The Sri Lankan government, plunged into unprecedented financial chaos, will seek a bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) after its $51 billion foreign debt “defaults”.
Ranil Wickremesinghe, who also took over the Ministry of Finance, became the new prime minister of this country of 22 million people since May. He replaced Mahinda Rajapaksa at the head of the government, which was forced to resign after a wave of violence that killed nine people last month.
source: Noticias
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