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Colombo (dpa) - Norway launched a fresh initiative Tuesday to resume Sri Lanka's stalled peace process and bring the Tamil rebels and the government back to the negotiating table aimed at resolving the country's 20-year-old ethnic conflict, officials said. A…

Pre-school children from the conflict stricken Kilinochchi district of Sri Lanka are receiving at least one nutritious meal a day, thanks to World Vision Sri Lanka's pre-school feeding program. The World Vision Taiwan-funded program has been active in the Kilinochchi…

COLOMBO, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka police are reinforcing checkpoints in Colombo with 1,000 more officers, doubling numbers in response to a wave of killings of army and police informants and opponents of Tamil Tiger rebels, officials said…

COLOMBO, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Police have imposed a curfew on a town in eastern Sri Lanka after 7,000 Muslims scuffled on the streets late on Monday following a hand-grenade attack that wounded 13 people, including three policemen, officials…

Colombo (dpa) - Japan peace envoy Yasushi Akashi ended a week-long visit to Sri Lanka on Tuesday, expressing hopes that both Tamil rebels and the government could resume peace talks. Akashi told reporters that the Sri Lankan government and the…

COLOMBO, Nov 1, 2004 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- A special peace envoy from Japan left here Monday morning for Sri Lanka's rebel-held north to facilitate peace talks in the country, said official sources. Yasushi Akashi, who arrived here last Wednesday, is…

1 November 2004, JAFFNA - Sri Lanka cricket legend Muttiah Muralitharan, a humanitarian partner with the United Nations World Food Programme, said today that meals provided to school children in the country's former war zones are one of the…

Program Description USAID's Office of Transition Initiatives (USAID/OTI) program in Sri Lanka assists in generating greater support for a negotiated peace settlement to end the long-standing conflict. To accomplish this aim, USAID/OTI's two objectives are: To increase collaboration and participation among diverse…

FAO emergency assistance helps Sri Lanka cope with the effects of conflict and natural disaster 29 October 2004, Colombo, Sri Lanka - The armed conflict in Sri Lanka in the last two decades has claimed more than 65 000 lives…