The content originally appeared on: CNN (CNN)Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has left the country, according to a high ranking security official, shortly before he was due to formally step down. Rajapaksa and his wife flew to Mal?, in the Maldives, on an AN32 troop transport plane from the Sri Lanka Air Force, the official said. Local air traffic control refused the plane's request to land until an intervention by the Speaker of Maldivian Parliament Majlis and former President, Mohamed […]
