Sri Lanka: veterinarians on strike to protect elephants

Sri Lankan veterinarians have launched a strike to protest inadequacies in elephant protection, as deadly conflicts between locals and pachyderms escalate, a union official said on Tuesday. “There is not a good management of the wild elephants which are relegated to increasingly limited spaces because the government allows the inhabitants to encroach on their areas…

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Sri Lanka. Thousands of people on the streets to support the sacked Prime Minister

Tens of thousands of demonstrators blocked the center of the Sri Lankan capital Colombo on Tuesday, a show of force by ousted Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in his confrontation with President Sirisena and his sulphurous predecessor Rajapakse. Fired Friday to everyone’s surprise by the president , Maithripala Sirisena, the former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe denounces…

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