A digest of news and opinion from the Maldives.
After turning the tables quietly on China in Sri Lanka two and a half years ago, India finds itself on the cusp of repeating this success in another SAARC nation in the Indian Ocean – Maldives. Only if India were willing to go the distance, that is! It was in January 2015 when China’s then […]
The political situation in the island nation of Maldives has been swinging from the tragic to the farcical in the last two months as President Yameen struggles to retain his hold on power. Having sent his nemesis – former President Nasheed – to 13 years prison on an utterly bogus charge of ‘terrorism’, Yameen thought […]
The original Dhivehi article was published on Vaguthu.mv website on 20th August 2017. The following is a loose translation: As mentioned by President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, that the hero wins after the last fight scene in a Bollywood movie, are truly wise words. President Maumoon has mentioned a scene well-known to Maldivians and can relate […]
The original Dhivehi article was published on Vaguthu.mv website on 16th March 2017. The following is a loose translation: This is confirmed after finding out who Al Jazeera’s reporter Will Jordan, the maker of Stealing Paradise documentary, really is. On how information was gathered to make the documentary, and when the video’s witnesses’ real character […]
by Azra Naseem In the early hours of the morning on 8 August 2014, journalist and blogger Ahmed Rilwan (28), was captured on CCTV boarding a ferry from Male’ to Hulhumale’. It is the last known and verifiable movements of Rilwan who, it has been widely reported, was abducted later that morning from his apartment in […]
Hey, you there? Very sad to say this but they’ve stabbed Yamin to death. The Twitter DM arrived in my inbox at 3:48 in the morning on Sunday the 23rd of April. I was in Europe, five hours behind Male’ time. It was another three hours before I switched my phone on and looked at […]
by Anonymous The use of torture as a tool of citizen oppression is a hallmark of dictatorships. The past and recent histories of the Maldives have been defined by authoritarian rule with a flimsy façade of overt calmness and order. This belied the covert systemic use of torture in the country’s prisons, which has been […]
The original Dhivehi article was published on the vfp.mv website on 19th May 2017. The following is a loose translation: The first guest house in the Maldives opened in 2010. Prior to that guest house tourism business was not allowed. President Nasheed’s government allowed the creation of guesthouses for tourist stay. The aim was to […]
The original Dhivehi article was published on Mihaaru.com website on 1st May 2017. By Moosa Latheef The following is a loose translation: Overwhelming amount of discrimination in the tourism sector for Maldivians Top-level posts for clueless foreigners with no experience Huge disfavour for Maldivian staffs by Maldivian resort owners Neglect of Maldives resort employees rights […]