Maumoon Abdul GayoomPresident (pronounced "moh-MOON ab-DOOL gay-YOOM") "We may lack in numbers; we may lack in material wealth; we may lack in technological advancement; in fact, we may lack in many of the material criteria by...

Maumoon Abdul Gayoom (Dhivehi: މައުމޫނު އަބްދުލް ގައްޔޫމް) (born December 29, 1937) has been the president of the Republic of Maldives since November 11, 1978, having succeeded Ibrahim Nasir. He was last re-elected to a sixth...

THEY ARE billed by the travel industry as a tropical island paradise, luring 80,000 Britons a year to their near-perfect combination of beaches, lagoons and coral reefs. Yet last month riots and street violence broke out in the Maldives, with tourists forced to...

Abdul-Jabbar, history hook up By WIL HAYGOOD Washington Post Sunday, May 16, 2004 Washington -- He used to roam upper Manhattan, a kid, tall and bony, looking for arrowheads and musket balls, artifacts from George Washington's meanderings in the area. "They...

The longtime president of this tiny Indian Ocean nation won an overwhelming victory Sunday in a referendum on the Maldives' future form of government, but the opposition slammed the results as rigged and called for protests.The vote was expected to clear the way for the...

A homemade bomb exploded Saturday outside a crowded city park in the Maldives, wounding at least 12 people, all of them foreign tourists, a government official said.Officials in the Indian Ocean archipelago, renowned for its exclusive tourist resorts, said they did not know who was...