Three years after quitting the party he co-founded – and vowing to “dismantle” it – former President Mohamed Nasheed has swept back to the top of the MDP, taking 69 percent in Friday’s chairperson vote. The win restores his control of the opposition after nearly eight years on the sidelines. But it comes bound to a bargain: Nasheed has pledged to back Fayyaz Ismail, not himself, for the 2028 presidency. Few expect that to hold. Our analysis of what the landslide settles, what it doesn’t, and the fault lines already showing: https://maldivesindependent.com/explainer/back-at-the-top-bound-by-a-bargain-nasheed-and-the-road-to-2028-7d97 Facebook

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Some reefs in the Maldives still struggle to recover years after mass bleaching. Scientists think they may have found one overlooked reason: the cushion starfish. Unlike the notorious crown-of-thorns, this one targets juvenile corals under 10cm – the fast-growing acropora and pocillopora reefs need to rebuild. A 2024 study in Baa Atoll found it was the leading cause of death among corals used in restoration projects. In plain terms: conservationists were planting coral, and the starfish were eating it. It’s native, not invasive, and part of the ecosystem, which makes the question harder. The Maldives Coral Institute lays out what’s at stake, and why targeted removal in key zones may now be on the table. Read the op-ed: https://maldivesindependent.com/opinion/rise-of-baby-coral-killers-could-hold-back-reef-recovery-4e02 All comment pieces are the sole view of the author and do not reflect the editorial policy of the Maldives Independent. If you would like to write an opinion piece, please...

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They survive as little more than names in the royal grants that endowed a sultan’s tomb. Now, reading the seventeenth-century account of François Pyrard de Laval – the Frenchman shipwrecked at the court of King Kalaafaan – Nazim Sattar reconstructs the king’s queens: the high-born chief queen taken by force, the child pulled from a wreck at Guraidhoo, and the young woman seized barely three months before the disaster of 1607. A weekend read on the women history left in the margins. https://maldivesindependent.com/history/shadows-beside-the-king-the-queens-of-kalaafaan-584b Facebook

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