Sri Lanka: President Rajapaksa leaves Maldives for Singapore

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Sri Lanka: President Rajapaksa leaves Maldives for Singapore

 

 

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has left the Maldives on a Saudi airlines flight bound for Singapore, sources have told the BBC.

The president had fled to the Maldives a day earlier amid mass protests over Sri Lanka's economic crisis.

It is not clear if Mr Rajapaksa will stay in Singapore or whether he will use it as a layover destination.

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I have tried to keep up with events in Sri Lanka, but not being familiar with the politics, it's a little difficult.  From what I can ascertain, many of us should be happy to be living in countries where we are coming through the pandemic and the economic chaos relatively unscathed.  Sri Lanka most certainly isn't faring very well.