Sri Lanka braces for new economic crisis as war on Iran continues

Kandy, Sri Lanka – On a sunny March day in the hill city of Kandy in central Sri Lanka, Keerthi Rathna waited in a serpentine queue to buy his share of petrol for his three-wheeler tuk-tuk.

The government-allocated ration for him was 20 litres (about 5 gallons) per week. In the past, Rathna used to buy as much petrol as he needed, whenever he needed it, but everything has change...