COLOMBO: An International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegation was in Sri Lanka on Monday for talks on the island-nation's worsening economic crisis, with the public enduring months of food, fuel and medicine shortages.
A lack of foreign currency has left traders unable to pay for vital imports in what authorities concede is the South Asian country's worst financial crisis since its independence from the United Kingdom in 1948.
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