Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Saturday said his government has been able to restore public life to normalcy within a very short period after Cyclone Ditwah devastated the island nation and took over 600 lives.
Dissanayake’s claim came a day after he announced a massive relief package to all those affected by Cyclone Ditwah and requested the IMF for an additional USD 200 million to meet excess expenditure to cope up with the disaster.
The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Colombo office on Saturday said the request would be considered at the global lender’s executive board on December 15.
The island nation has been grappling with widespread flooding, landslides and severe infrastructure collapse following Cyclone Ditwah, which has also acutely strained the country’s disaster-response capacity.
As many as 611 people had died and over 200 remained missing even as search operations for those buried under landslides continued a week after the cyclone struck the …​Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Saturday said his government has been able to restore public life to normalcy within a very short period after Cyclone Ditwah devastated the island nation and took over 600 lives.
Dissanayake’s claim came a day after he announced a massive relief package to all those affected by Cyclone Ditwah and requested the IMF for an additional USD 200 million to meet excess expenditure to cope up with the disaster.
The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Colombo office on Saturday said the request would be considered at the global lender’s executive board on December 15.
The island nation has been grappling with widespread flooding, landslides and severe infrastructure collapse following Cyclone Ditwah, which has also acutely strained the country’s disaster-response capacity.
As many as 611 people had died and over 200 remained missing even as search operations for those buried under landslides continued a week after the cyclone struck the … ​Latest News [ SOBAN NEWS: International and National ]
