Sri Lankans are experiencing an unprecedented economic crisis: gas prices have tripled since last September and food has doubled in the last few months.
Women participate in a protest outside a police station in Colombo demanding that cooking gas be made available. Pic: APSri Lanka's new prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, is expected to give his first address to the nation on Monday after being appointed last week.
The demonstrators are fed up with the country's cost of living crisis. Long queues of people line up for gas and petrol and there is a shortage of most basic supplies. Chamali Jayamali is struggling to survive on two dollars a day - her family used to earn three dollars a day but her disabled husband's job making paper bags at home has taken a hit because there's a severe paper shortage in the country.
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