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Sri Lanka cyclone caused $4.1 bn damage: World Bank
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Sri Lanka cyclone caused $4.1 bn damage: World Bank

  • AFP AFP
  • Updated 49 mins ago

Cyclone Ditwah, which struck Sri Lanka last month, caused an estimated $4.1 billion in direct physical damage to buildings, agriculture and critical infrastructure, according to a World Bank report released Monday.

IMF approves $206 mn aid to Sri Lanka after Cyclone Ditwah
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IMF approves $206 mn aid to Sri Lanka after Cyclone Ditwah

  • AFP AFP
  • Updated Dec 20, 2025

The International Monetary Fund said Friday that its board has approved $206 million in emergency financing for Sri Lanka, to help in the country's recovery from the devastating Cyclone Ditwah.

Sri Lanka plans $1.6 bn in cyclone recovery spending in 2026
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Sri Lanka plans $1.6 bn in cyclone recovery spending in 2026

  • AFP AFP
  • Updated Dec 19, 2025

Sri Lanka's government announced plans on Thursday for $1.6 billion in extra spending in 2026 to fund the country's recovery from Cyclone Ditwah, which killed more than 640 people.

Salt of the earth: Pilot project helping reclaim Sri Lankan farms
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Salt of the earth: Pilot project helping reclaim Sri Lankan farms

  • Ishara S. KODIKARA
  • May 11, 2025

Sri Lankan Special Task Force soldiers work at a plantation in their model farm at Katukurunda. Increasing salinity is slowly swallowing tradi…

Salt of the earth: Pilot project helping reclaim Sri Lankan farms
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Salt of the earth: Pilot project helping reclaim Sri Lankan farms

  • Ishara S. KODIKARA
  • May 11, 2025

A Special Task Force soldier shows a pumpkin grown at the model farm at Katukurunda

Salt of the earth: Pilot project helping reclaim Sri Lankan farms
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Salt of the earth: Pilot project helping reclaim Sri Lankan farms

  • Ishara S. KODIKARA
  • May 11, 2025

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization said in a 2024 report that saltwater from seas and oceans affects 10.7 percent of the earth's land, m…

Salt of the earth: Pilot project helping reclaim Sri Lankan farms
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Salt of the earth: Pilot project helping reclaim Sri Lankan farms

  • Ishara S. KODIKARA
  • May 11, 2025

Soldiers are reshaping flood-prone land by digging ponds where rice can be grown or fish raised, with more saline-tolerant coconut trees planted

Salt of the earth: Pilot project helping reclaim Sri Lankan farms
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Salt of the earth: Pilot project helping reclaim Sri Lankan farms

  • Philippe ALFROY AFP
  • May 11, 2025

A commando in an elite Sri Lankan police unit, Sameera Dilshan has an unusual mission -- to reclaim farms poisoned by salt, a long-standing pr…

Sri Lanka counts nuisance wildlife in bid to protect crops
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Sri Lanka counts nuisance wildlife in bid to protect crops

  • Ishara S. KODIKARA
  • Mar 14, 2025

Official estimates suggest that about a third of all crops in Sri Lanka are eaten or destroyed by wild animals

Sri Lanka counts nuisance wildlife in bid to protect crops
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Sri Lanka counts nuisance wildlife in bid to protect crops

  • AFP AFP
  • Mar 14, 2025

Sri Lanka carried out a nationwide census Saturday of nuisance wildlife, including monkeys and peacocks, in a bid to prepare countermeasures t…

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