Full Coverage: Sri Lanka

28.02.2009 Many Sri Lankans are trapped by fighting between government and secessionist guerrillas, some with untreated infected wounds, with no access to information and no chance to look for lost family members, says an international medical charity.+ OneWorld Guide to Sri Lanka

11.02.2009 An international media freedom group has protested to Sri Lanka's media minister about the censoring of BBC World Service programmes.
ICRC evacuates over 240 wounded and sick from the Vanni by sea

05.02.2009 Tens of thousands of civilians fleeing the fighting in northern Sri Lanka are in desperate need of humanitarian aid, NGOs report.

03.02.2009 Hospitals inside the area controlled by Sri Lankan anti-government rebels are overburdened and in need of medical supplies and medical staff, says an international medical charity which is preparing to deploy mobile clinics.
+ UN official concerned over shelling of hospital, worsening civilian plight
+ Increasing number of children injured in fighting
+ Vanni hospital shelled