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No kerosene, no food, Sri Lanka’s fishermen say
MANNAR: As the sun rose over Sri Lanka one morning in late August, around a dozen fishermen were laying out their nets on a beach in Mannar, a small island just off the country’s northwestern coast, the start of the day’s work.But many other fishermen in the community are unable to go to sea at all, crippled by the country’s devastating economic crisis, the worst it has faced since independence in 1948.Fuel shortages and runaway inflation mean they are struggling to procure kerosene oil, needed to power the boats that provide their livelihood.“Everything’s difficult at the moment - there’s no kerosene, there’s no food at home,“ said 73-year-old Soosaipillai Nicholas, nicknamed Sornam.“We onl

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