The Maldivian government will seek international assistance to bring the opposition to the negotiating table, Fisheries Minister Dr Mohamed Shainee announced today, after cancelling a second-meeting...
Efforts to launch talks aimed at ending the Maldives’ political crisis got off to a bizzare start tonight with representatives of President Abdulla Yameen and the...
President Abdulla Yameen has thanked India and Pakistan for helping the Maldives avoid action by the Commonwealth over human rights abuses, but has offered no indication...
President Abdulla Yameen has made it clear that he considers the release of jailed politicians as abuse of his powers, despite international calls to do so...
Senior UN political official Miroslav Jenča has assured President Abdulla Yameen of UN assistance for all-party talks announced amidst continuing international concern over human rights in...
President Abdulla Yameen's 2016 presidential address at the People's Majlis opening touched on sovereignty, judicial reform, and the government's achievements in health care, education, and infrastructure...
MPs of the main opposition Maldivian Democratic Party did not attend today’s inaugural session of the People’s Majlis, in protest over a controversial change of venue.
The People’s Majlis is set to reconvene on Thursday at the Dharubaaruge multi purpose hall instead of the parliament house because of a minor fire that...
The police are conducting a search of a recently uninhabited island in the Maldives’ remote north after a group of boys discovered boxes of non-lethal bullets...
The MDP said it had received documents via email that appear to show Yameen is “equally involved” in the corruption involving his former deputy Ahmed Adeeb...
Opposition parties are planning to take to the streets on February 5 over tens of millions of dollars missing from resort leases in what the graft...
The president’s office has hit back at allegations of President Abdulla Yameen’s involvement in misappropriating funds from tourism leases, insisting that rumors of state funds being...
A lawyer representing Ahmed 'Shumba Gong' Ashraf said: “The police have previously said he is influencing witnesses and my client is being investigated for allegedly sending...
President Abdulla Yameen, in his first public address of the year, reflects on opposition leader Mohamed Nasheed's temporary release from jail, and lists his government's achievements...
Noting that the Maldives police never established a motive or apprehended the masterminds behind the shocking murder of an MP, family members of missing journalist Ahmed...
Home Minister Umar Naseer, who had refused to meet UK Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Office Hugo Swire today, is now claiming Nasheed tore...
President Abdulla Yameen has backtracked on an "unconditional promise" to allow jailed former President Mohamed Nasheed to travel to the United Kingdom for medical care, and...
