Iced tea, soap, shampoo: How Sri Lanka exported less tea than Kenya, but earned more

By Ian Omondi,

President Uhuru Kenyatta has decried the lack of value addition on Kenyan tea as one of the reasons why the green gold is not bringing in as much mone...

Kenya tea , KTDA , President Uhuru Kenyatta , Sri Lanka , Tea

England win World Cup in Super Over drama to end 44-year wait

By Reuters,

England ended their 44-year wait for a maiden 50-overs World Cup title by beating a gutsy New Zealand side on boundaries after a tied Super Over amids...

44-year wait , England , maiden World Cup , New Zealand

China,United States face off in Djibouti as world powers fight for influence in Africa

By CNN,

A dirt track at Djibouti's Doraleh Port leads to a series of unassuming single-story buildings that, earlier this year, hosted the world's two superpo...

china , Djibouti , Red Sea , US

Sri Lankan President: ’99 Percent’ of Easter Bombing Suspects Arrested

By VOA,

Sri Lanka's president said Tuesday that almost all of the suspects who carried out the deadly Easter bombings on churches and hotels have been arreste...

Sri Lanka police discover suspected training camp for Islamist militants

By Reuters,

Sri Lankan police on Sunday discovered a 10-acre camp in the eastern town of Kattankudy, where Islamist militants linked to the deadly Easter attacks ...

Islamic state , Sri Lanka , Zahran Hashim

‘Save us from the Satans’: Survivors of Sri Lanka church attack pray

By Reuters,

A dozen rifle-toting soldiers guarded a small community hall as day broke in the eastern Sri Lankan town of Batticaloa on Sunday morning. Around 9 ...

Islamic state , President Maithripala Sirisena , Sri Lanka , SUICIDE BOMBERS

Deserted beaches, empty rooms: Sri Lanka tourism takes a hit after bombings

By Reuters,

Sri Lanka’s $4.4 billion tourism industry is reeling from cancellations as travelers shun the sun and sand Indian Ocean island after multiple suicid...

Islamic state , President Maithripala Sirisena , Sri Lanka , Suicide bombings , tourism

Churches in Sri Lankan capital cancel Sunday mass due to threat

By Reuters,

Sri Lanka’s Catholic churches have canceled Sunday mass in the capital Colombo for a second straight week, citing foreign intelligence warnings of t...

Leave my country alone, Sri Lanka president tells Islamic State

By Reuters,

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena said a foreign mastermind may have planned the Easter Sunday bombings, claimed by Islamic State, telling the...

Islamic state , Sri Lanka

Leave my country alone, Sri Lanka president tells Islamic State

By Reuters,

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena said a foreign mastermind may have planned the Easter Sunday bombings, claimed by Islamic State, telling the...

U.S. envoy to Sri Lanka says threat is real; security forces maintain high alert

By Reuters,

The U.S. ambassador to Sri Lanka said on Tuesday that some of the Islamist militants behind Easter Sunday bombings that killed more than 250 people we...

Sri Lanka maintains high alert for attacks ahead of Ramadan

By Reuters,

Sri Lankan security forces maintained a high level of alert on Tuesday after the Easter Sunday bombings, officials said, amid intelligence reports tha...

Ramadan , Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka bans face veils after attacks by Islamist militants

By Reuters,

Authorities in Sri Lanka on Monday banned women from wearing face veils under an emergency law put in place after deadly Easter Sunday attacks by Isla...

Father, two brothers of Sri Lanka suicide bombings mastermind killed in gun battle

By Reuters,

The father and two brothers of the suspected mastermind of Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday bombings were killed when security forces stormed their safe ho...

Sri Lanka

Sri Lankan police raid Islamist group suspected of suicide bombings

By Reuters,

Sri Lankan armed police on Sunday launched a search of the headquarters of an Islamist group, National Thawheedh Jamaath, suspected of being behind th...

Sri Lanka , Zahran Hashim

Fifteen dead in Sri Lanka after overnight gun battle with suspected Islamist militants

By Reuters,

The bodies of 15 people, including six children, were discovered at the site of a fierce overnight gun battle on the east coast of Sri Lanka, a milita...

Sri Lanka , SUICIDE BOMBERS

15 bodies, including those of 6 children, found after Sri Lanka raids

By VOA,

Sri Lankan security forces have exchanged gunfire with an armed group in Kalmunai in the eastern region of the country. A military spokesman says 1...

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka bombers’ mentor, Zahran Hashim is dead, but his memory still stokes fear

By CNN,

Zahran Hashim had preached hate and violence for years. On Easter Sunday, at the Shangri-La hotel in Colombo, he put those words into action. As ...

Sri Lanka , Sri Lanka bomb attacks , Zahran Hashim

He lost two children in the Sri Lanka bombings

By CNN,

Matt Linsey's face is peppered with minute scars from the shrapnel and debris that hit him, as he recalls the split-second decision he and his two chi...

sri lanka bombings

Muslims flee, christians grieve in Sri Lankan town

By VOA,

As mourners buried the remains of Christian worshippers killed in the Easter suicide bomb attacks in Sri Lanka, hundreds of Muslim refugees fled Negom...

Sri Lanka