Global conflicts push Sri Lanka's economy to the brink

NPR | By Diaa Hadid

Published June 2, 2026 at 3:42 AM CDT

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

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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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