{"id":43219,"date":"2022-04-04T09:04:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T00:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/04\/sri-lankas-cabinet-resigns-as-protesters-anger-grows-over-economic-crisis"},"modified":"2022-04-04T09:04:14","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T00:04:14","slug":"sri-lankas-cabinet-resigns-as-protesters-anger-grows-over-economic-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43219","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s cabinet resigns as protesters\u2019 anger grows over economic crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All 26 cabinet ministers aside from the president and the prime minister quit as unrest over the country\u2019s worst financial crisis in decades continues<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s entire cabinet aside from the president and his sibling prime minister resigned from their posts on Sunday as the ruling political clan seeks to resolve a mounting economic crisis, with a social media blackout failing to halt another day of anti-government demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p>The south Asian nation is facing severe shortages of food, fuel and other essentials \u2013 along with record inflation and crippling power cuts \u2013 in its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/02\/milk-sachets-chicken-fuel-basics-slip-out-of-reach-for-sri-lankans-as-economic-crisis-bites\">most painful downturn since independence from Britain in 1948.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/04\/sri-lankas-cabinet-resigns-as-protesters-anger-grows-over-economic-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All 26 cabinet ministers aside from the president and the prime minister quit as unrest over the country\u2019s worst financial crisis in decades continuesSri Lanka\u2019s entire cabinet aside from the president and his sibling prime minister resigned from their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,674,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43220,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43219\/revisions\/43220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}