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Since the end of World War II, the world has witnessed numerous financial crises stemming from the unique nature of sovereign borrowing. (Getty)

Rising debt challenges divide developed and developing economies

An international framework that prevents prolonged restructuring negotiations is required

A scene from Sri Lankan Sulochana Peiris’s documentary #GoHomeGota. Photo: Sudeepa Dhananjaya

Film explores people power

A Sri Lankan documentary about the overthrow of its despotic leader is being shown locally

Cantankerous: Julis Malema argues with police at the presidential guest house in Pretoria. Photo: Emmanuel Croset/Getty Images

EFF marched but it was no Sri Lanka moment

Police Minister Bheki Cele and his team of officers appear to be better at arresting radials than criminals

A child displaced by drought holds her nose as she walks past the rotting carcasses of goats that died from hunger and thirst on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia. People from across Gedo in Somalia have been displaced due to drought conditions and forced to come to Dollow, in the southwest, to search for aid. Somalia has suffered three failed rainy seasons in a row, making this the worst drought in decades, and 6 million people are in crisis levels of food insecurity. The problems are being compounded by the rising costs of food prices because of the Ukraine war. Hence, hundreds of thousands of livestock have died from hunger and thirst. (Sally Hayden/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Hungry for action campaign: Time for a food and finance revolution

The world must act now because the food system is broken and families from Mozambique to Ireland don’t know where their next meal will come from

People entering the abandoned Presidential Secretariat at Galle Face in Colombo, Sri Lanka on July 10, 2022.(Photo by M.A.Pushpa Kumara/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

‘Tunisia Days’ ahead as inflation exerts political pressure

With high prices continuing to bear down on consumers the world over, leaders who fail to bring inflation to heel could face a reckoning

A professional healthcare worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) carry an oxygen tank inside a temporary ward dedicated to the treatment of possible Covid-19 patients at Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria on January 11, 2021. (Photo by Phill Magakoe/AFP)

After India: The countries on the brink of another Covid oxygen crisis

The need for medical oxygen to treat Covid-19 patients in low- and middle-income countries has more than doubled in the past two months, and many of these countries faced oxygen…

Intergenerational benefits: Children who have healthy diets, good care and education are likely to have productive lives. (Adek Berry/AFP)

Invest in children to give them a better world

This entails putting them at the centre of national strategies, but doing it without high CO2 releases

After facing the consequences of climate change first-hand in their own villages, the nuns decided to start walking with two strong messages: protect the environment, and empower women. (Reuters/Gopal Chitrakar)

‘Kung Fu’ nuns cycling for the environment

After facing the consequences of climate change first-hand in their own villages, the nuns decided to start marching with two strong messages

India’s assault weapon Jasprit Bumrah celebrates taking the wicket of South Africa’s Hashim Amla. (Paul Childs/Reuters)

World Cup Week 1: What we’ve learned

After a week of entertainment we’re still trying to figure out what the pecking order is in this medley

Sri Lanka’s St Sebastian Catholic Church was the subject of Easter attacks which have caused tension in the country. (Reuters/Athit Perawongmetha)

Sri Lanka blocks social media after anti-Muslim riots

Christian groups attacked Muslim-owned shops in the northwestern town of Chilaw on Sunday in anger at a Facebook post by a shopkeeper, police said

St Anthony Shrine in Sri Lanka was subject to attacks on Easter weekend. (Reuters/Dinuka Liyanawatte)

Sri Lanka attack mastermind used chatrooms to sway suicide bombers

Investigators believe the group also used social media private messenges to keep in touch without being noticed by the authorities

The archbishop of Colombo, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, had wanted to resume regular mass from May 5, but the new information made them put it off indefinitely, his spokesman said on Thursday. (Reuters/Chris Helgren)

Sri Lanka mass cancelled over ‘specific attack threat’

The Church had planned to resume Sunday public services for the first time since the Easter Sunday attacks that killed 257 people

A soldier keeps guard as nuns walk out of St. Sebastian Church in Negombo, Sri Lanka. (Reuters/Danish Siddiqui)

Sri Lanka Catholics to resume mass two weeks after attacks

All public services by Sri Lanka’s Christian minority were cancelled after the April 21 suicide attacks

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena said he would oversee a ‘complete restructure’ of police and security forces in ‘coming weeks’. (Reuters/Dinuka Liyanawatte)

Sri Lankan president vows security shake-up over attacks

Tensions over alleged intelligence failures escalate as ISIL claims responsibility for deadly Easter Sunday blasts

A woman holds a rosary as silence is observed as a tribute to victims, two days after a string of bomb attacks on churches and luxury hotels across the island on Easter Sunday, during a memorial service in Colombo. (Reuters/Dinuka Liyanawatte)

Probe shows Sri Lanka attacks ‘retaliation for Christchurch’ — government

The revelation came as the death toll in the Easter Sunday bomb attacks on churches and high-end hotels rose to 321

Sri Lanka’s St Sebastian Catholic Church was the subject of Easter attacks which have caused tension in the country. (Reuters/Athit Perawongmetha)

‘Where is God?’: Sri Lankans stunned after deadly blasts

In the aftermath of Sunday’s deadly attacks, Sri Lankans are trying to understand what has happened

St Anthony Shrine in Sri Lanka was subject to attacks on Easter weekend. (Reuters/Dinuka Liyanawatte)

Easter blasts at Sri Lanka hotels and churches kill at least 207

The attacks were the worst act of violence to hit the country in the decade since the end of a bloody civil war that killed up to 100 000 people

Proteas batsman Hashim Amla. (AFP)

Poor form puts Amla’s World Cup place in jeopardy

The Proteas batsman faces being axed from the Wrold Cup squad after a poor run of form against Sri Lanka

International debut: Sinethemba Qeshile made two catches during his first game as a Protea against Sri Lanka on March 22, less than two years after leaving school. (Christiaan Kotze/AFP)

Sine’s a gift that will keep giving

South Africa’s newest Protea Sinethemba Qeshile’s rags-to-riches ascension to first-class cricket couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy

Sri Lanka’s government began interviewing 47 potential hangmen.(Reuters/Suhaib Salem)

Sri Lanka interviews 47 potential hangmen

47 male applicants would be interviewed on Wednesday and Thursday, after the government advertised the vacancies in February