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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Five weeks after the Maldives’ deadliest diving incident, the investigations have narrowed to a camera. Rome prosecutors have sent Malé a formal request for the equipment the five Italian divers carried into Devana Kandu, including the GoPro recovered from inside the cave, which may show what happened at 60 metres. The Finnish divers who brought the bodies out have begun to speak: no guideline laid, recreational tanks at depth, four divers found together in a dead-end passage. Asked about the status of the government’s inquiry, the rogatory and the MNDF’s review of the dive that killed Sergeant First Class Mohamed Mahudhee, the President’s Office declined to provide updates, saying all matters were related to investigations. What the recovery divers saw, and what investigators want: https://maldivesindependent.com/society/five-weeks-after-the-devana-kandu-deaths-what-the-recovery-divers-saw-and-what-investigators-want-b816 Facebook

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President Muizzu hailed it as a milestone for transparency: 12 years after the Right to Information Act came into force, the President’s Office and all 16 ministries have finally met its proactive disclosure requirements. Information Commissioner Ahid Rasheed calls it the bare minimum – and points to the bigger failure it leaves untouched. Of 712 complaints to his office last year, two-thirds were about state institutions simply not responding at all. The President’s Office was among the worst offenders. Read our full report: https://maldivesindependent.com/politics/twelve-years-on-government-meets-meets-bare-minimum-on-right-to-information-87f4 Facebook

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