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  • Jihadism In Maldives: Impact On Vital Tourism Industry

    MALDIVES, 2015/08/30 There has been in recent years a disproportionate number of Maldivian fighters in Syria amid increased grassroots radicalisation in the Maldives, traditionally a religiously-relaxed Muslim country. Effective domestic and regional counter-extremism measures can reverse these trends. Jihadist activity and a radicalised community have been visibly growing in the completed decade in the Maldives, traditionally a religiously-relaxed Muslim country. Maldives experienced a terrorist attack in 2007 wounding 12 foreigners towards the end of Maumoon Abdul Gayoom’s 30-year government. Mohamed Nasheed’s government (2008 – 2012) saw a huge increase in violent extremism and the spread of radical ideology part the people. The present government of Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom is contending with an increasing number of Maldivians participating in transnational terrorist activity and an actively radicalised community.

  • Oxfam Study Finds Richest 1% Is Likely to Control Half of Global Wealth by 2016

    AFGHANISTAN, 2015/01/20 The richest 1 % are likely to control additional than half of the globe’s total wealth by next year, the charity Oxfam reported in a study released on Monday. The warning about deepening world inequality comes just as the world’s business elite prepare to meet this week at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The 80 wealthiest people in the world all own $1.9 trillion, the statement found, nearly the same all shared by the 3.5 billion people who occupy the bottom half of the world’s gain scale. (Last year, it took 85 billionaires to equal that figure.) And the richest 1 % of the people, who number in the millions, control nearly half of the world’s total wealth, a share that is as well increasing.

  • The island of Male, which hosts the Maldivian capital of the same name

    MALDIVES, 2013/10/12 The Maldives is one of the world’s most exclusive holiday destinations but it has quietly opened up to backpackers in the last five years through reform that has upset religious hard-liners. Most visitors arrive at the country’s airport island, take a speed boat or seaplane to their expensive coral-fringed private resort and spend the next week relaxing in blissful ignorance of the country around them. It has been this way for decades, the result of a deliberate policy of keeping wealthy vacationers — mostly Westerners and often newlyweds — on uninhabited islands separate from the local Muslim population.

  • President condemns calls to boycott Maldives' tourism

    MALDIVES, 2013/05/07 President Dr Mohamed Waheed Hassan Manik has strongly condemned the efforts of the group of people calling for the boycott of Maldives' tourism. Speaking to the residents of Haa Dhaal Atoll Neykurendhoo next laying the foundation stone of Neykurendhoo Friday Mosque, President noted that tourism is the major source of gain in the Maldives.
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