Sri Lanka’s new PM warns ‘most difficult months of our lives’ ahead

Ranil Wickremesinghe says country's finances extremely precarious' in first address since appointment

Sri Lanka's new prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, has warned that the financial crisis engulfing the country will get continue to get worse and the next couple of months will be the most difficult ones of our lives".

In his first address to the country since he was appointed as interim prime minister on Thursday, after Mahinda Rajapaksa stepped down from the role amidst Sri Lanka's worst economic crash since independence, Wickremesinghe was blunt as he described the conditions of the country's finances as extremely precarious".