Sri Lankan President Maithreepala Sirisena, right, hands over official documents on Sunday as reappoints Ranil Wickremesinghe as prime minister. (President Media Division/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)A crisis that threatened to derail Sri Lanka’s democracy ended Sunday when the country’s prime minister was reinstated by the same president who ousted him from office seven weeks earlier. He dismissed Ranil Wickremesinghe, the sitting prime minister, and replaced him with Mahinda Rajapaksa, a controversial former strongman. Sri Lanka's reinstated prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, center, greets Buddhist monks with his wife, Maithree, on Sunday. “There is no real stability right now.”Read moreWith pushes, kicks and shoves, Sri Lanka’s Parliament descends into chaosCan reconciliation heal Sri Lankan war wounds?

Source: Washington Post December 16, 2018 15:28 UTC