Sri Lanka Crisis: Gotabaya Rajapaksa to step down as President amid massive protests

Hours after thousands of protesters stormed his official residence in the capital of Sri Lanka, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Saturday agreed to step down from his post. Rajapaksa has informed that he will resign from the Presidency on the 13th July, Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena announced in a press conference this evening, according to Sri Lanka`s news outlet Newswire. The development came following the announcement of resignation by Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe from his post.

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