COLOMBO (Reuters) – Dinesh Gunawardena took the oath as Sri Lanka’s new prime minister on Friday, local television channels reported.
Gunawardena’s appointment comes a day after six-time prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as the country’s new president.
(Reporting Uditha Jayasinghe and Devjyot Ghoshal in Colombo, Writing by Shilpa Jamkhandikar; Editing by Jacqueline Wong)
