Maldives Violence

Maldives President Abdulla Yameen fired his second police chief in three days and the opposition said it feared violence, as the island nation was pitched deeper into a crisis caused by Yameen's failure to obey a court order to free jailed opponents.

Voters across the Maldives came out in force on Saturday to vote in an election that could see the honeymoon islands' first elected leader return to power, a year after being toppled.

Ex-Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed was arrested dramatically by special operations police in the capital Male' on Tuesday. Helmeted police dressed in full riot gear, some with balaclava masks detained Mr Nasheed after a lower Hulhumale' court order. Sporadic violence broke out in the capital after the arrest that played out on Male's streets. Th...

Gutted vehicles and buildings in the picturesque Maldivian atoll Addu, which hosted the SAARC summit last year, are a stark reminder of the violence that swept through it following the ouster of Mohamed Nasheed as president.

The former president of the Maldives, Mohammed Nasheed, faces arrest after being ousted from his post earlier in the week in what he says was "a coup at gunpoint".

Supporters of the Maldives former president rioted through the streets of the capital and seized some remote police stations today to demand his reinstatement, as the country's new leader appealed for an end to the political turmoil roiling this Indian Ocean island nation. At least 10 islands were taken over by the supporters.

Maldives President Abdulla Yameen fired his second police chief in three days and the opposition said it feared violence, as the island nation was pitched deeper into a crisis caused by Yameen's failure to obey a court order to free jailed opponents.

Voters across the Maldives came out in force on Saturday to vote in an election that could see the honeymoon islands' first elected leader return to power, a year after being toppled.

Ex-Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed was arrested dramatically by special operations police in the capital Male' on Tuesday. Helmeted police dressed in full riot gear, some with balaclava masks detained Mr Nasheed after a lower Hulhumale' court order. Sporadic violence broke out in the capital after the arrest that played out on Male's streets. Th...

Gutted vehicles and buildings in the picturesque Maldivian atoll Addu, which hosted the SAARC summit last year, are a stark reminder of the violence that swept through it following the ouster of Mohamed Nasheed as president.

The former president of the Maldives, Mohammed Nasheed, faces arrest after being ousted from his post earlier in the week in what he says was "a coup at gunpoint".

Supporters of the Maldives former president rioted through the streets of the capital and seized some remote police stations today to demand his reinstatement, as the country's new leader appealed for an end to the political turmoil roiling this Indian Ocean island nation. At least 10 islands were taken over by the supporters.