Another week, another forced departure at an independent body. Yesterday the Secretary General of the National Pay Commission, Faizal, resigned suddenly. Reporting says the government asked him to go. He is the third senior official at an oversight-adjacent body to leave the

India did not roll over the USD 400 million currency swap. The Maldives paid it back yesterday. This is the sentence the Finance Ministry did not want to write. For months the framing from Treasury Building was that the rollover was pending Delhi’s approval, that the

Ras Malé is at 50 percent reclamation. The project was launched on December 18, 2023. Two years and four months ago. The presidential pledge at launch was completion in eight months. Do the math. Eight months promised. Twenty-eight months elapsed. Fifty percent complete. The

Dengue is killing children. On Sunday a seventeen-year-old from M. Mulah died after being admitted with severe dengue. Earlier this month a 23-year-old named Nabhan died at IGMH after being transferred from Shaviyani Milandhoo. These are the deaths that have made it into the

On the night of April 19, a blood storage refrigerator at the Maldivian Blood Services failed. The units were moved to a working refrigerator the same night. That part was handled. What happened next is the problem. Three of those units were administered to thalassemia patients

Taxi drivers took loans averaging MVR 179,000 to buy vehicles that, more than a year later, remain unregistered. The drivers are now being asked to repay the loans. The vehicles still cannot be legally operated. The Transport Minister responded yesterday to a letter from an

On Friday night, a young man ran out from a crowd and shoved Malé Mayor Adam Azim in the chest at an MDP protest near Henveiru Cemetery. Caught on live TV. President Muizzu condemned the attack on Saturday. The President’s Office denied any role. Both statements were necessary.

On April 25, China announced 500 housing units in Malé. Interest-free facility. State Minister Thoam Mohamed signs for the government. CIDCA Vice-Chairman Liu Junfeng signs for the Chinese side. The 2025 budget forecast 81% of the country’s bilateral grants in 2026 would come

On Friday night, a young man ran out from a crowd and shoved Malé Mayor Adam Azim in the chest. It happened at an MDP protest near Henveiru Cemetery, in front of a livestream. This is what political violence in the Maldives looks like in 2026. Not bombs. Not assassinations. A

BREAKING: Maldives Police are currently raiding the offices of Adhadhu under a search warrant.

Police raided Adhadhu tonight. The newsroom that won four categories at the 2024 Maldives Journalism Awards. The newsroom whose CEO has been the target of named threats from the President. The newsroom that broke the “Aisha” documentary. They came for the electronic devices.

A judgment is due Wednesday in the constitutional challenge to the country’s anti-defection provisions. The case had sat frozen for months. It resumed this month, alongside the disqualification of ruling-party MP Mohamed Sinan. Husnu Suood, in his first detailed interview since

Weren’t you the one who planned to marry Aisha, only to drop everything after Muizzu took you to Hajj and made you back out?

The Constitution of the Maldives names the rights of journalists and the rights of the President. It also names the procedure for resolving conflicts between them. Article 27 protects expression “not contrary to tenets of Islam.” Whether expression has crossed that line is a

#Maldives: Maldivian authorities must immediately return seized equipment to the independent news outlet Adhadhu, lift travel bans on its staff, and cease using criminal allegations to silence reporting on the president, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Tuesday. On

Recent reports of the Maldives Police Service raid on Adhadhu are troubling. The UK has consistently raised concerns about media freedom. The raid sits uneasily with Maldives’ commitment to Commonwealth standards. Free and independent media are essential to healthy democracy.

Police executing the Adhadhu raid Monday night went to the wrong building first. They arrived around 7:10 PM at Gulhazaaru Ge, the residence of former Deputy Speaker of Parliament and former MDP Chairperson Reeko Moosa Manik. They were in uniform. They had files in hand. They

The minister is correct on every principle in this tweet. He is also Ali Shareef, newly appointed Minister of Environment. The same Ali Shareef who, on his public account, called the President of France a “sick bastard.” Who attacked the Prime Minister of India directly on his

The international press has now documented the same sequence in three independent outlets. Al Jazeera. The Committee to Protect Journalists. OCCRP. Each of them carrying the same timeline. Adhadhu published the “Aisha” documentary on March 28. For four weeks, the state said