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A crowd of people fill a street waiting on line to vote in Sri Lanka

Maldives extends voting in tense presidential election

Voting has been extended as people began queueing in the capital. On some islands, people waited in line on Saturday night. 

An immigrant laborer working in a landfill on Thilafushi, the island used for waste disposal in the Maldives.

An island of toxic trash plagues the Maldives

Environment

VIDEO: In the Maldives, president claims he was forced to resign at gunpoint

Global Politics

Maldives working to be carbon-neutral by 2020

Environment

In the island nation of the Maldives, China and India trying to assert themselves

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Mohamed Nasheed and Jon Shenk on the State of the Maldives

Few places have come to symbolize climate change as much as the island nation of the Maldives. The nation’s 1,200 small islands in the Indian Ocean sit, on average, about five feet above sea level. When Mohamed Nasheed  became the first democratically elected president of the country in 2008, he made climate change his primary policy […]

Former Maldives President Calls for New Elections

Conflict & Justice

Anchor Marco Werman speaks with the BBC’s Andrew North about the latest developments from the Maldives.

Climate-Crusading Maldives President Resigns

Conflict & Justice

Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed has resigned after weeks of unrest. Host Marco Werman reports on the sudden resignation of a leader who had been a vociferous campaigner for action on climate change.

Maldives Looking At ‘Carbon Neutrality’ by 2020

Business, Economics and Jobs

The government of the Maldives plans to make the Indian Ocean island nation “carbon neutral” by 2020. It’s an effort to set an example for other countries and help avert the possible inundation of much of the country in the face of rising sea levels.

China and India Jockey for Influence in the Maldives

Global Politics

India and China are competing for influence in the Maldives, a tiny country of 1,200 islands scattered in the northern Indian Ocean.

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