Sri Lanka protests Live Updates: President set to resign on Wednesday as protesters storm official residence

Sri Lanka Crisis Live Updates: PM Ranil Wickremesinghe has announced his resignation to make way for an all-party government to take over.

Sri Lanka protests Live Updates: Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will step down on July 13, the country’s parliamentary speaker said on Saturday following violent protests in the capital. Demonstrators stormed the president’s official residence and set fire to the prime minister’s home in Colombo on Saturday.
The announcement came after months of anti-government protests in the island nation in the wake of the economic crisis.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe also said he is willing to resign to make way for an all-party government, his office said in a statement on Saturday evening.