Hope and peril in the Maldives: Autocrat Yameen goes down to shock defeat in elections after attempts to usurp all power

The unexpected election defeat of the authoritarian president of the Maldives, Abdulla Yameen, to a combined opposition candidate, Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, is a ray of hope for the tiny Indian Ocean island nation whose transition...

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