Global conflicts push Sri Lanka's economy to the brink

NPR | By Diaa Hadid

Published June 2, 2026 at 4:42 AM EDT

Sri Lanka was careening from crisis to crisis, then came the Mideast war. People say they've got no buffer left.

Diaa Hadid

Diaa Hadid chiefly covers Pakistan and Afghanistan for NPR News. She is based in NPR's bureau in Islamabad. There, Hadid and her team were awarded a Murrow in 2019 for hard news for their story on why abortion rates in Pakistan are among the highest in the world.

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