#Sri Lanka Flood
Sri Lanka
Floods damage 273,000 acres of paddy fields affecting 153,000 farmers
The Agricultural and Agrarian Insurance Board (AAIB) estimates that recent floods triggered by Cyclone Ditwah have damaged roughly 273,000 acres of paddy lands,...
Sri Lanka
Only 30% of Sri Lanka’s rail network usable
Only about 30% of Sri Lanka’s railway system remains operational after the recent cyclone that battered the island, leaving widespread destruction across transport,...
Sri Lanka
Cyclone Ditwah leaves Rs.190 billion blow to Sri Lanka’s highways
Sri Lanka’s government has estimated that recent weather-related disasters caused roughly Rs.190 billion in damage to the country’s highway network, officials said Thursday,...
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka cyclone tragedy exposes government failures
Days after Cyclone Ditwah tore through Sri Lanka, over 1.46 million people across all 25 of the nation’s districts remain affected by the...
