{"id":43318,"date":"2022-04-06T23:24:22","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T14:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/06\/sri-lanka-facing-imminent-threat-of-starvation-senior-politician-warns"},"modified":"2022-04-06T23:24:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T14:24:22","slug":"sri-lanka-facing-imminent-threat-of-starvation-senior-politician-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43318","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka facing imminent threat of starvation, senior politician warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker tells parliament \u2018there will be very acute food shortages\u2019 and economic crisis is \u2018just the beginning\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/06\/why-are-people-protesting-in-sri-lanka\">Why are people protesting in Sri Lanka?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sri Lanka is facing the imminent threat of starvation for its population of 22 million as the economic crisis in the country continues to worsen and food becomes increasingly scarce, a senior politician has warned.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in a debate in parliament, held against the backdrop of the worst financial crisis to hit the country since independence \u2013 and with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/05\/sri-lanka-faces-medical-emergency-economic-crisis-drug-supplies\">anti-government protests spreading<\/a> across the country \u2013 the speaker of the parliament, Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, warned that this was \u201cjust the beginning\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/06\/sri-lanka-facing-imminent-threat-of-starvation-senior-politician-warns\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker tells parliament \u2018there will be very acute food shortages\u2019 and economic crisis is \u2018just the beginning\u2019Why are people protesting in Sri Lanka?Sri Lanka is facing the imminent threat of starvation for its population of 22 million as the economic &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"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":[437,61,674],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43318","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\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43321,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43318\/revisions\/43321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}