RFI    After sweeping away the Nepalese government in early September and shaking up the Philippines, a wave of protests initiated by Generation Z has now...

Paul Myers    Moments after his appointment as chairman of the Comoros organising committee for the 2027 Indian Ocean Island Games (IOIG), Mohamed Issimaila spoke...

Isabelle Martinetti    What does the future hold for Asian elephants? That is the question behind South African photographer Brent Stirton’s photo series at the Visa pour l...

RFI    President Emmanuel Macron made a short stopover in Sri Lanka on Friday - the first visit by a sitting French leader to the island nation, which is...

Pratap Chakravarty    France, India and Japan have teamed up and invited others to join in the rescue of Sri Lanka’s crippled economy, a crisis blamed on mindless spending...

RFI    A court in northern France has sentenced 14 Sri Lankan nationals to prison for operating a people-smuggling ring across Europe - part of a continent...

RFI    Shehan Karunatilaka, who was named as the winner of the Booker prize with his novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, is the second Sri Lankan writer...

RFI    The resignation of Sri Lanka’s president has been accepted, the crisis-hit country’s parliamentary speaker announced Friday, after he fled the...

RFI    Sri Lanka declared a state of emergency Wednesday as thousands of people mobbed the prime minister’s office after the country’s president flew to the...

RFI    Sri Lankan protesters refused to budge from President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s residence on Sunday after storming his home, forcing him to flee with the...

Pratap Chakravarty    Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled his official residence in Colombo Saturday, according to defence sources, as protesters stormed his...

RFI    An England cricket fan who waited 10 months in Sri Lanka to watch his team play was ushered away by police before a ball had been bowled in the first...

RFI    A record 35 candidates filed nominations on Monday to run for president of Sri Lanka in next month’s election. Incumbent Maithripala Sirisena opted...

RFI    Five Sri Lankan suspects have been repatriated from Saudi Arabia over links to the Easter Sunday bombings in Colombo that killed some 250 people, Sri...

RFI    Sri Lanka said it arrested 23 people and announced it would maintain a curfew on Tuesday after a man was killed in escalating riots targeting Muslims...

RFI    Police raided the province of Kalmunai, where the jihadists suspected of organising last week’s Easter attacks were hiding out. In the ensuing battle...

RFI    Two key figures in Sri Lanka’s security hierarchy are to resign over the attacks during Easter last week, the Sri Lankan presidency announced.

RFI    Sri Lankan police say they arrested 18 people overnight in connection to the Easter Sunday church attacks that left over 350 people dead. The US...

RFI    Sri Lanka marked a national day of mourning Tuesday, as the death toll for the country’s worst attacks since the end of its civil war rose to 310.

RFI    In his traditional Easter Sunday address to the faithful at the Vatican, Pope Francis on Sunday expressed his sadness at news of the deadly bomb...

RFI    Police in Sri Lanka have arrested three people in connection with bomb attacks on churches and hotels that killed at least 200 people on Easter...

Susan Owensby    This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the question about the 2018 Jacques Chirac Foundation prize. There’s On This Day , the...

RFI    Angelo Mathews scored a defiant 88 to keep Sri Lanka’s hope of winning the second Test match against England afloat. Needing 301 runs to win, Sri...

Andy May    England captain Joe Root believes that his 124 against Sri Lanka in Kandy could be the best of his 15 Test centuries.