Defence chief Nazim is reported to be the first senior government minister to visit India since the country became embroiled in the Maldives’ domestic politics earlier this year after several months of increased tensions between the two nations.
Former Attorney General (AG) Azima Shukoor will continue to advise the government on two high-profile legal cases she has previously been involved in, despite being transferred to the Gender Ministry earlier this month.
PPM MP Ahmed Nihan has said he is not surprised about recent speculation linking Speaker Shahid with a switch to the opposition MDP – claiming his fellow PPM MPs had suspected his “alignment” with the party for at least the last twelve months.
Rumours that Speaker of Parliament Abdulla Shahid and two other government-aligned MPs, Alhan Fahmy and Abdulla Abdul Raheem, have joined the opposition Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) are being widely circulated by local media.
Former President Mohamed Nasheed has publicly predicted that the Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) will win the presidential elections on September 7 with 57 percent of the popular vote – six percent more than the required 51 percent to secure election victory without a run-off election.
Police discovered six foreign workers locked in a house after being accused of refusing to work and attempting to “flee”.
China’s National Development Reform Commission (NDRC) donated 250,000 LED tube lights, amounting to 24 million Chinese Yuan (USD $3,869,345), to the Maldivian government to assist with combating negative climate change impacts.
Tourism Minister Ahmed Adheeb and Defence Minister Mohamed Nazim have denied involvement with an infamous pair of Armenian brothers linked with drug trafficking, money laundering, raids on media outlets and other serious crimes in Kenya.
The upcoming Presidential Elections are headed to unfold a political context of crises of legitimation, uncertainty of democratic transition, existing polarisations and other challenges that have been aggravated by the controversial transfer of power on 7 February 2012,” Transparency Maldives has stated, in a detailed pre-election assessment of the September 7 presidential elections.