Abdul Ghafoor Mohamed, former Maldives ambassador to the US, examines the reasons for the anger, despair, disillusionment and hope surrounding the newly launched United Maldives Opposition.
Bilad Al Sham, the media section of Maldivians fighting in Syria, has released a YouTube video describing the country’s leaders as Taghut – unjust tyrants, opponents...
Environmentalists say Maldives reefs may not bounce back from this year's El Nino as fast as the government expects because of human stressors, such as dredging...
"31 March saw the beginning of a painful time for the team of seventy-five employed by Haveeru," writes editor Ali Naseer. "With no means of income,...
Ali Rafeeq, Haveeru's editor from 1987 - 2010, takes a look at the ownership dispute that has shut down the Maldives' oldest newspaper.
If the CMAG is unable to improve the Maldives situation, the UK should not be afraid to countenance targeted sanctions, such as travel bans and asset...
The Maldives, faced with economic and political crises, has reoriented its foreign policy, wherein the Chinese enjoy a place of much greater influence than they did...
Although Maldives adopted a Constitution based on democratic values and principles, it is Singapore's Lee Kwan Yew's authoritarian capitalism that President Abdulla Yameen wants to practice...
On World Press Freedom Day, The Maldives Independent profiles 13 men - dissidents, writers and journalists - who suffered prison, solitary confinement, prosecution, and torture for...
The simple fact is that for many months the international media and political leaders in the US, UK and Europe have heard only one side of...
Azim Zahir explores the array of factors that fuel radicalisation in the Maldives; “block thinking” that does not bother to understand complexities; government's trivialising of the...
Hussain Humam Ahmed, 22 years, is on death row for the murder of MP Afrasheem Ali. His family fears he was framed and judged guilty because...
It is perhaps not the best idea to jail a bunch of journalists. It means that those who hold the pen, the power to communicate, feel...
The government of President Abdulla Yameen of the Maldives continues to abuse an overbroad anti-terror law as a blunt-force tool to arbitrarily and indiscriminately silence perceived...
Hussain Humam was sentenced to death "through a process that has breached the principles of Islamic Shari’a, common law, international obligations and even common sense," argues...
If there is a particular event which can be pointed to as the beginning of the end of Maldives’ peaceful transition to democracy, the acceptance of...
What we are witnessing in the Maldives today is the selective use of religious scriptures to give 'divine' endorsement of power and privilege to men and...
