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Mohamed Nasheed

Mohamed Nasheed is the former president of the Maldives

October 2021

  • The former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed delivers a lecture on climate change in Delhi, India.

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    Cop26: what would success look like for a country vanishing under water?

    On the eve of Cop26, Mohamed Nasheed, the former president of the Maldives, argues that if countries do not get serious about reducing emissions, it will not be just the Maldives that faces a perilous future

September 2012

  • Maldives police coup d'etat

    In the Maldives, our democracy is being suffocated. We need help

    Mohamed Nasheed
    Mohamed Nasheed: The dictator Gayoom's henchmen will use any means to halt a new election that I, the elected president, could win

November 2009

  • Maldivian cabinet members dive in training for an underwater cabinet meeting in Male, Maldives, 2009

    Cif green
    In the same leaky boat on climate change

    Douglas Alexander and Mohamed Nasheed
    Douglas Alexander and Mohamed Nasheed: The Maldives and Britain are united in the face of environment crisis – and we take inspiration from underwater politics