Maldives government has announced a ban on Israeli passport holders, citing solidarity with Gaza. This is because of Israel’s ongoing war there, in which it has killed more than 36,400 Palestinians, most of them children and women, since October last year. Mohamed Muizzu, president of the archipelago in the Indian Ocean, declared the ban wi...
Malé, Maldives — AFP Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu is a strong advocate of Chinese investment and his party’s landslide parliamentary election victory will help him deliver on a promise to return the atoll nation to Beijing’s orbit. The 45-year-old’s People’s National Congress decimated its pro-Indian rival to...
Malé, Maldives – AFP India has begun withdrawing military personnel operating surveillance aircraft in the Maldives after the new pro-China president ordered them to leave, local media reported Tuesday. The Mihaaru newspaper reported that 25 Indian troops deployed in the southernmost atoll of Addu had left the archipelago ahead of March ...
ISTANBUL (AA) — The Maldives has asked India to withdraw its troops from the island nation by March 15, a senior official said on Sunday. This was revealed in a news conference on Sunday by Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu’s public policy secretary Abdulla Nazim Ibrahim. A total of 88 Indian military personnel are present in […]...
Malé, Maldives – – AFP President Mohamed Muizzu of the Maldives has vowed to expel Indian troops deployed in the strategically located archipelago, in his first speech to the nation after being sworn into power. Muizzu, 45, did not name India — but promised he would deliver on his election promises, key among them a […...
Malé, Maldives – AFP The Maldives’s incoming president Mohamed Muizzu has vowed to expel Indian troops after taking office later this week, but told AFP he does not want to redraw regional balance by bringing in Chinese forces instead. “Maldives is too small to be entangled in geopolitical rivalry,” the president-elect ...
Malé, Maldives – AFP The president-elect of the Maldives, Mohamed Muizzu, has marked his victory with a pledge to end the foreign military presence in his small but strategically placed atoll nation. Muizzu, 45, addressing his first public rally after winning Saturday’s runoff election stopped short of naming India, the only foreig...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Mohamed Muizzu was in the lead in Maldives presidential elections, according to early results. Preliminary results place Muizzu, from the Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM) – Peoples National Congress (PNC), in the lead with 53.8%, said media reports. Incumbent President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih of the Maldivian Democ...
