Sri Lanka struggling to pay foreign debt of $5.9 billion: PM
Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said that his government is struggling to pay the record foreign debt of $5.9 billion this year. Wickremesinghe blamed the political crisis last year which was triggered by his ouster, for dealing "a death blow to an economy that was struggling to recover". Sri Lanka lost $1 billion in foreign reserves in 2018.