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Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe

Protestors demanding the resignation of Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa gather inside the compound of Sri Lanka's Presidential Palace in Colombo on July 9, 2022. - AFP

Acute shortages of food and fuel, alongside lengthy electricity blackouts, have led to months of widespread anti-government demonstrations calling for President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's resignation.

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A protestor kneels down along in an ongoing anti-government demonstration outside the President's office in Colombo on April 27,2022, demanding the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa over the country's crippling economic crisis. - AFP

Police officers inspect a road in Rambukkana on April 20, 2022, a day after police killed an anti-government demonstrator while dispersing a protest against the high fuel prices and to demand President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's resignation over the worsening economic crisis.- AFP

Protestors take part in a demonstration against the surge of prices and shortage of fuel and other essential commodities at the entrance of the president's office in Colombo on April 4, 2022. - AFP

People wait in queue with empty cans to buy fuel at a fuel pumping station amid a fuel shortage in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on April 2, 2022. - EPA