No fuel, no hope: Sri Lankans flee crisis in mass brain drain

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Shamla Yoosoof, an investment researcher from Colombo, left Sri Lanka with her 3-year-old son and a jam-packed suitcase, swapping economic chaos at home for a new start in Dubai.

She flew out in June to join her husband who had secured a job as a sales and marketing director there weeks before — one of tens of thousands of Sri Lankan professionals escaping the country’s worst economic crisis in seven decades.