Sri Lanka denies food shortage: govt
The Hindu
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on August 31 issued emergency regulations to control the prices of essential commodities
The Sri Lankan government on September 2 denied that the country was facing a food shortage, underlining that the Public Security Ordinance on the supply of essential goods was imposed to stop their hoarding. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on August 31 in a preventive move to stop hoarding of them. “The president has promulgated emergency regulations under the Public Security Ordinance on the supply of essential goods”, presidential spokesman Kingsley Ratnayake told reporters.
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