In this July 24, 2019, photo, Sri Lankan trader Ranepura Hewage Jayasena, 76, waits for customers at shop selling mementos in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Shocks from deadly suicide bombings on Easter Day in Sri Lanka are still reverberating throughout its economy in the worst crisis since the South Asian island nation’s civil war ended in 2009. “Almost 100% of my business is gone. There are days without a single sale,” said Jayasena, looking grief-stricken as he went through the previous days accounts. “We had a war that raged for years, but we had good business. Bombs exploded in Colombo city itself, but that did not affect our business,” he said. “This is the worst period I have seen in my life.” (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
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