A digest of news and opinion from the Maldives.
The original Dhivehi article was published on Avas.mv website on 26th December 2017. The following is a loose translation: On President Abdulla Yameen’s current campaign trips to atolls, referring to the opposition coalition, he says as follows. ‘They are coconuts which cannot be identified from which type of tree it came from and just a […]
Senior figures of the Y-faction of PPM in Tuesday’s press conference — Photo by: Shahubaan Fahumee The breakaway Y-faction of ruling Progressive Party of the Maldives (PPM) has threatened legal action if the Party’s name is not removed from the statement issued by opposition parties condemning the en masse suspension of lawyers. The statement was […]
Secretary General of Jumhooree Party, Ahmed Sameer has been summoned to the police again. After being arrested near the Jumhooree Party hall at Maafannu Kunooz on 16 August 2017, he was released after a the court set some conditions on him. But police have summoned him before to take statements in their investigation. The Jumhooree […]