PROPAGANDA POSTER Sri Lankans walk near an anti-government propaganda poster at an ongoing protest site near President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s office in Colombo on Sunday, June 5, 2022. AP PHOTO
COLOMBO: It has been nearly three weeks since Ranil Wickremesinghe took over as prime minister of Sri Lanka with a daunting mandate to pull the crisis-weary South Asian country from the brink of an economic abyss that threatens to tear it apart.