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 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...
ANKARA (AA) – Polling for the election of a new president began in Maldives on Saturday, with incumbent Ibrahim Mohamed Solih seeking a re-election. Voting at 574 polling booths set up nationwide opened at 8 a.m. local time (0300 GMT), and will continue till 4 p.m. More than 282,000 people are registered to vote, with […]
