Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s call for unity amid ethnic divisions and pro-people economic reforms resonate on the island.

Sri Lanka's new leftist leader has little room to renegotiate an IMF bailout that threw a lifeline to his bankrupt country ...

Marxist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake, 56, was on Monday sworn in as Sri Lanka's ninth president following his victory in ...

Management of the country’s economic crisis and management of public expectations will be his biggest challenge, say analysts ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake, a Marxist lawmaker, has won Sri Lanka's presidency in a surprising election upset. He faces the ...