Maldives Dissent

Maumoon Abdul Gayoom is in a marketing overdrive not only to sell himself to the Maldives electorate for a staggering 7 th term in office, ...

With the emergence of Gasim in the presidential lineup, Gayoom's 30-year-dictatorship is looking more threatened than it ever did. Of th...

Last week saw Maldivian Democratic Party MDP step back, yet again, on its stated commitment to gender equality.  Shortly after presidential ...

If Gayoom hoped to score political points with the national football team's first gold, he must be a happy man today. He seems to have f...

Maldivians, for a change, are dancing to dictator Gayoom's tune.  As the sun set today, the entire country, if "Golha TV" is t...

When Islamic Democratic Party leader Umar Naseer declared that only Muslims would have Maldivian citizenship, he was going against a fundame...

When former MDP chairman Mohamed Nasheed launched his campaign for the party's presidential nomination, he chose to call it "Thaahi...