When does the monsoon arrive in the Maldives? Ask the Maldives Meteorological Service and the answer is 8 May. Ask the centuries-old Nakaiy calendar – the indigenous almanac developed by ancestors who navigated by the stars – and the answer is 14 April, the day astronomer Abdulla Rasheed calls bihuroazu, the day of blessings. This year, the two systems agree that Hulhangu has arrived. But a developing El Niño, a warming Indian Ocean and a shifting climate may not let them agree for much longer. Read the full feature: https://maldivesindependent.com/environment/the-day-iruvai-ended-reading-the-rains-in-a-season-that-no-longer-behaves-e7e8 Facebook

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OPINION | Two Adhadhu journalists are serving 10 and 15 days in prison. Mohamed Shahzan for a question he put to President Mohamed Muizzu at last Monday’s press conference. Leevan Ali Nasir for reporting that the Criminal Court had issued a gag order. Neither had legal representation. Both were sentenced behind closed doors. These are the first contempt detentions of journalists in the Maldives’ post-2008 democratic period – and they were produced by an order that fails every limb of the constitutional test. Maldives Journalists Association executive director Mohamed Junayd lays out the case: the gag order is unconstitutional, the qazf charge does not fit the facts, the investigation did not ask the questions it was obliged to ask, and the stakes for every accountability beat in this country are immediate. Read the full op-ed: https://maldivesindependent.com/opinion/comment-a-line-drawn-against-the-maldivian-press-57b4 Facebook

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