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[💥 @_har0un]

This was part of his austerity measures to cut down public service and privatise everything. It's amazing how some of us still believe he is someone interested in equality and freedom.

[Kobra @TheKobraKid44]

@planefag

[Maldives Security Desk @mvsdesk]

The tragic loss of marine ecologist Monica Montefalcone in the #Maldives has drawn attention to a life spent studying and protecting the country’s reefs. Since at least 2007, Montefalcone had been researching Maldivian coral ecosystems and documenting reef resilience, biodiversity, bleaching events & the growing impact of climate change & human activity on tropical marine habitats.

Her work examined recovery after the devastating 1998 bleaching event & the 2015–2016 El Niño crisis. In 2020, she co-authored research on coral mortality & reef recovery across depths of 10–50m in Maldivian reefs.

She later contributed to coral restoration projects near Villimalé, where relocated corals showed a reported 66% survival rate after two years of monitoring. She also helped build a 19-year reef dataset (2005–2023) covering North Malé, Ari, and Rasdhoo atolls, and supervised research on submerged marine caves in the Maldives. #CaveDive #Italians #MonicaMontefalcone @ilario82 @RaiNews @mundhu_maldives @MoTmv @IruthishamAdam

[Naif @naaif]

Free goathi scheme, 'Binveriya' is a massive hit to the state. According to the special audit by the AGO:
🔴16B MVR loss to the state
🔴1,408 plots were distributed to 4,120 individuals across Hulhumale Ph 2 & 3
🔴A cost of 3.9M MVR per person
🔴On average, each person received 690sqft of free land
https://t.co/WTvx0XEFG2

[Mohamed Yaniu @mohamed_yaniu]

A lot of people are talking about the “Malé Taxi” name right now. I want to share our side of the story not as a complaint, but because 10 years of hard work deserves to be heard.

In 2015, we registered the business name “Malé Taxi” under Taviyani Pvt Ltd (Registration No. BN-0929/2015). That same year, we launched Kobaa Taxi, an online taxi booking service. We purchased 150 Samsung tablets from Thailand, along with MiFi devices and SIM cards from Dhiraagu, all with our own money, and distributed them to drivers ourselves. There was no funding, no backing just our own effort to build something new for Malé.

In 2016, we submitted a proposal to the Ministry of Economic Development for motorcycle taxi services (RFP Ref: (IUL)101-AF/2016/77). We demonstrated the concept, but our proposal was not selected. We were then advised to apply through a new regulation, and we followed every process as required.

In 2017, the ministry opened an Expression of Interest for Premium Taxi Services in Malé and Hulhumalé (Ref: (IUL)101-AF/1/2017/31, dated 1 February 2017). We submitted a detailed proposal featuring electric and hybrid vehicles, app-based booking, Maldivian drivers in uniform, cashless rides, and a phased rollout plan. We even beat MTCC on price. In the end, the project was cancelled.

At that time, very few people in the Maldives believed an app-based taxi service could work so in 2017, we stopped.
But we did not give up.

In February 2019, we rebranded and launched Avas Ride. We started again from zero with no outside rescue. Just our own money, our own belief, and our determination to keep going.

Today 7 years later Avas Ride has more than 160,000 customers and 3,000+ drivers. In 2025 alone, we completed 2.9 million rides.

As a white-label platform, we faced limitations in customizing the product for the Maldivian market including constraints around integrations such as BML payment gateway ,implementation of safety features. Despite these challenges, we continued to grow and validate the model locally.

In 2023, we made a major decision: to build our own platform from scratch.
We began developing Avas App with a fully Maldivian team 8 developers, a CTO, a UI designer, and a product manager. We successfully launched it with a grand event, marking a new chapter for locally built technology.

Today, we are preparing for an international white-label launch in Q3 this year.

We proved that this model works not with government money, but with persistence, resilience, and belief in what we are building.

Then, on 2 April 2026, MTCC launched “Malé Taxi Line”: electric vehicles, app-based booking, Malé and Hulhumalé coverage, and uniformed drivers. It is almost identical to what we proposed in 2017 and it uses the name we registered in 2015.

We sent a formal notice regarding name infringement to MTCC on 28 March 2026. They launched anyway. There was no response, no negotiation, and no acknowledgment.
Let us be clear we are not against better public transport. In fact, we have spent the last decade trying to build exactly that.

But if a legally registered business name can be used by a state-owned company without even a conversation, then what message does that send entrepreneurs in Maldives.

[Honey Makwakwa @HoneyTellAStory]

Kenya is a terrifying example of how quickly it can all go terribly for each and every single one of us.
This was unimaginable a decade ago.

[thought leader at RDC @rootcauser]

we have to find a way to disable ai appl on ahmedzahid and najihdidi's phones

[Tharutheebu @Tharutheebu]

I do not think it is Sharia @UmarNaseerMV wants.

This is a man whose entire life is filled with either outright violence or open support for bloodshed and violence. From his early days serving as an officer for NSS during Maumoon's totalitarian rule, to this day, this man has expressed his sadism and bloodthirst in various forms; from prison torture to trying to forcibly breach a military base, from issuing a direct death threat to a sitting president to trying to execute people under the guise of Sharia, from common thuggery to openly encouraging presidents to have the guts to kill.

There are plenty of punishments in Sharia that does NOT end in someone's death, and any punishment that does result in a death is undoubtedly among the harshest of punishments. So why the crazed haste to kill with only minimal focus on punishments that do not culminate in deaths?

It does not make sense from whichever angle you look at it. It does not make sense for Umar to have built an execution chamber (yes, it does exist) with a feverish urgency during his tenure as Minister of Homeland without preparing nor even giving much thought to any other Sharia based punishment, without preparing for any other procedure.

In every opening he gets, this man has never failed to speak out in favour of potentially lethal methods. This frenzied urgency to kill is nothing short of alarming.

From batons to tazers and guns, from street violence to extreme savagery, Umar has it all covered, and are the only things this man is capable of talking about. Never reform, never rehabilitation, never mercy.

Moreover, we rarely hear from Umar except when its time for elections. Where is he the rest of the time? Why does he pop up only for elections?

Law and order mean nothing to this sick man, as he has, on multiple occasions, resorted to extralegal and extrajudicial force if he saw fit to do so.

[Maldives Independent @IndependentMV]

What kind of person removes a 100-year-old banyan tree by show of hands? Plays football against teenagers and celebrates when he scores?

A new essay examines the president as class monitor – and the state apparatus bent to serve his teenage insecurities. https://t.co/rOy6ZwagcR

[Zinaahu @hassanxinaah]

Erasing school colors is an attack on Maldivian history. Majeedhiyya is close to 100 years old, and Aminiya has shaped generations. Their heritage must be protected.

[SentientKaashi @SentientKaashi]

You know our education system isn’t worth shit coz this topic deserves its own subject

[Sami Gold @souljagoyteller]

Hamas and UNRWA have been disputing for over a decade. Hamas fighters have even tried to assassinate former leaders of UNRWA. This entire accusation is a smear to finally complete Israel’s long-lasting defamation campaign against UNRWA. Shame on all of you for helping them out

[vero! ᵕ̈ loves sav 🇻🇪 @hbwbuckley]

i love how bisan not only shares the atrocodies happening gaza, but also how these people are keeping their beautiful culture alive. in a time like this, it is so important to do so. keep the hope and palestine ALIVE!!!

[Viathan 🔆 @VermilViathan]

people who make AI porn edits of minors should go to jail and should be a registered sex offender for life

[Terrill Tailfeathers @Terrilltf]

Looks like a good time to pull this one out again.

[SentientKaashi @SentientKaashi]

I don’t see what all the hype is about. We already have an underwater tunnel.

[Nafa Ahmed @bodu_gal]

This.
Recently found out that nearly everything on our ancestral land, including graves, headstones, and the Gaa of the boduga mosque were confiscated and thrown into the sea. Seems they were not retained as part of our history cos they were from pre-islamic era.