ARANAYAKA, Sri Lanka — Bandara Jayaratne from Beraliya, a village in the Aranayaka region in Sri Lanka, is among the fortunate individuals who escaped a landslide on Nov. 28 that occurred right behind ...

Members of the Sri Lankan Navy work to remove debris washed ashore from the Singapore-registered container ship MV X-Press Pearl – Copyright AFP ISHARA S. KODIKARA ...

Cyclone Ditwah made landfall on 28 November 2025, bringing intense rainfall, floods, and landslides that affected 22 ...

Disaster management officials from the United States and Sri Lanka came together, in Galle, from June 16–18, for a three-day workshop focused on strengthening preparedness for natural disasters and ...

Five days after cyclone Ditwah, flooding still prevails on Avissavella road at Wellampitiya in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on December 2, 2025. In the wake of Cyclone Ditwah, which has now veered toward India ...

COLOMBO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - On April 1, the Sri Lankan government paid 300 million rupees ($2 million) as a premium to buy its first national natural disaster cover from the country's ...

The images of agitated Sri Lankans storming into their country’s presidential residence in reaction to the mishandling of farm policy by their government left me with a single thought: This could have ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) — A former Charleston resident is coordinating relief efforts in Sri Lanka after a cyclone killed 355 people and left even more missing over the weekend. Stephanie De Silva, ...

UNHCR in Sri Lanka is opening up its local relief stockpiles to deliver immediate emergency assistance to victims of Sunday's devastating tsunami, which left thousands of dead, injured and displaced ...