Two government ministers who defected from Sri Lanka’s main opposition were sacked from the cabinet on August 9, after the Supreme Court upheld disciplinary action against them. The decision came ahead of presidential elections next month, the first vote since the unprecedented economic crisis of 2022, when months of protests toppled then-president Gotabaya Rajapaksa. The...

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