A digest of news and opinion from the Maldives.
Former President Mohamed Nasheed pictured speaking. PHOTO/PRESIDENT’S OFFICE Former president Mohamed Nasheed has said that the Maldives should elect an interim president in the upcoming presidential elections slated for 2018. Speaking to main opposition Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP)’s national council on Saturday, the former president said that he does not believe that a free and […]
Economic minister Mohamed Saeed speaks at a rally in Hithadhoo, Addu. PHOTO/ASURUMA As a “hub of progress”, the southernmost atoll of Addu demands a leader like president Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom, declared economic minister Mohamed Saeed late on Saturday night. Speaking at a rally held in Hithadhoo during first lady Fathimath Ibrahim’s current trip to […]
Exiled former President Mohamed Nasheed has called for the united opposition to seek the election of an interim leader in the 2018 presidential election. The task of the interim president should be transitional matters, “especially reforming the judiciary and reforming the government,” the opposition leader said in a message to members of the Maldivian Democratic Party. […]
President Abdulla Yameen dialled up campaign rhetoric Thursday night at the first major rally of the Progressive Party of Maldives since facing heavy losses in May’s council elections. With less than a year for the 2018 presidential election, Yameen’s speech was heavily focused on excoriating the Maldivian Democratic Party government of former President Mohamed Nasheed, who presided […]
The Government of Maldives has called on to establish an independent Palestine with East Jerusalem as capital, coexisting with Israel as the only solution to the Middle East crisis. Speaking in the United Nation’s Security Council’s Open Debate on the situation of the Middle East and the question of Palestine, Permanent Representative of the Maldives […]
President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom stated that the Maldives’ small size did not make it resourceless, and that this Administration will go to great lengths to ensure the fulfillment of the people’s needs, even by generating more resources. The President made this statement while speaking at a function held by the Progressive Party of Maldives […]
Members of SAI, a Japanese traditional drum group, pictured during their concert at the Republic Square, Male, on October 16, 2017. PHOTO: HUSSAIN WAHEED/MIHAARU The first beats of the drums, which resonate loud and thundering across the Republic Square, are enough to draw the eye of everyone in the vicinity. There is already a crowd […]
Along with his two brothers and their golden shoes, he danced his way to Eurovision victory for Sweden in 1984. But now the “Diggi-Loo-Diggi-Ley” singer Richard Herrey has scored another triumph. He is about to remarry his wife — who he has been with for the last 30 years — in a romantic, barefooted ceremony […]
The Inter-Parliamentary Union has expressed concern over human rights violation against opposition lawmakers in the Maldives. In a press statement Wednesday, the global organisation of national parliaments called for a fact-finding mission by its Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians and noted appreciation for an offer made by the Maldivian authorities to grant a visit in the near […]