KOCHI: Maldivian senior statesman Ibrahim Ismail (Ibra), who was a minister in the ousted Mohammed Nasheed government, said India should come down hard on the … Read more »
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‘Dictatorship is coming back to the Maldives and democracy is slipping away’
This is definitely not how Mohamed Nasheed imagined he would be promoting a new film about his campaign against climate change. The documentary follows the … Read more »
Maldives’ Nasheed Criticises United States of America for No Support
Male: Former Maldives’ president Mohamed Nasheed has criticised the US for not supporting him after he was ousted in a ‘coup’, even as he said … Read more »
Fading Maldives Coral Reflects Political, Climate Shift
The aerial shots of the Maldives in “The Island President” could make anybody long to snorkel. This chain of some 1,200 coral islands in the … Read more »
‘The Island President’ Director Jon Shenk Talks Coups and Courage
Jon Shenk had never been to the Maldives when, in the fall of 2008, he read about a young activist named Mohamed Nasheed who had … Read more »
Mohamed Nasheed and Jon Shenk on the State of the Maldives
Few places have come to symbolize climate change as much as the island nation of the Maldives. The nation’s 1,200 small islands in the Indian … Read more »