Sri Lanka’s Economic Crisis: President Gotabaya Rajapaksa Lifts the State of Emergency in the Face of Growing Protests

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa issued a notification on Tuesday revoking the proclamation declaring a State of Emergency, as the island nation continues to face nationwide protests over the severe economic crisis.

The State of Emergency will be lifted at midnight on April 5, 2022, according to the English-language newspaper Daily Mirror.

Earlier, Rajapaksa declared a state of emergency in the country to ensure “public security and public order.”

Protests against the government continue in the island nation, calling for solutions to the current economic crisis. Due to a severe shortage of medicines in the country, Sri Lanka has declared an emergency health situation today.