Politics
Stress test: 2025 Year in Review
Courts, nepo babies, medicine, housing, debt: the year's fault lines.
31 Dec 2025, 5:35 PM
Protect national security, face fines: what a new code asks of Maldivian journalists
Five ways the code of ethics departs from international standards.
16 Dec 2025, 4:53 PM
Dissecting decentralisation: how island councils are about to change
With more changes to the Decentralisation Act approved, we take a closer look at what is happening to local governance in the atolls.
04 Dec 2025, 5:14 PM
EU mission highlights SOE misuse as key unaddressed electoral concern
4,300 new hires in 2024 contradict government's reform pledge.
18 Nov 2025, 4:44 PM
Stability and darkness: Muizzu touts achievements as critics savage two-year record
Extracts from the president's anniversary speech.
17 Nov 2025, 5:32 PM
"You are my saviour": Maldives ex-president Waheed to Jeffrey Epstein
The special envoy sought a sex offender's advice as president.
16 Nov 2025, 3:32 PM
Maldives government and civil society present competing realities at UN human rights review
Exiled activists counter official narrative of "steady progress."
09 Nov 2025, 6:03 PM
"Tired of parties": voter turnout drops amid urban-rural enthusiasm gap
Malé turnout trails national average by 13 points as urban centres disengage.
30 Oct 2025, 6:17 PM
Hulhudhoo and Meedhoo celebrate "independence" in legal limbo
The city council still runs 80 percent of operations.
29 Oct 2025, 6:47 PM
Addu splits: Feydhoo votes to stay as Hulhudhoo and Meedhoo break away
Fewer than half of eligible voters turned out in Saturday's referendum.
25 Oct 2025, 8:15 PM
Light bulbs and bureaucracy: three Addu islands vote on breaking away
Saturday's vote pits administrative freedom against unified strength.
23 Oct 2025, 8:35 PM
Home is where you can't vote: The problem of "permanent address"
Their home is Malé. Their ballot box is elsewhere.
21 Oct 2025, 4:34 PM
Adeeb Files Part 2: the parliament that money bought
MPs caught requesting cash, jobs, and favours.
19 Oct 2025, 6:25 PM
Adeeb Files Part 1: the bagmen who moved millions
A guided tour of 1,700 messages from the bros.
16 Oct 2025, 5:22 PM
"We were forced to come out": voices from the MDP protest
Businesses down, living costs up, corruption unchecked.
05 Oct 2025, 5:10 PM
Photos from the frontline: pepper spray and sonic weapons in Majeedhee Magu standoff
Riot police blocked the MDP protest march.
04 Oct 2025, 1:34 PM
Political divide threatens Maldives' 20-year development blueprint
Consultant concedes MDP boycott will leave US$ 1.1 million plan incomplete.
02 Oct 2025, 3:58 PM
Challenging Gen Z’s political apathy
Political ‘youthquakes’ have rocked Bangladesh, and now Nepal. Are Maldivian youth really as apathetic as many might think?
25 Sep 2025, 3:40 PM
The #AdeebFiles: buried evidence of how the Maldives became a kleptocracy
Corruption is normalised and culturally embedded.
23 Sep 2025, 6:00 PM
New referendum law sets stage for electoral reforms as opposition warns of term extension
Government supporters float prolonging five-year presidential term.
22 Sep 2025, 2:02 PM
