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Deposed president Mohamed Nasheed set for comeback in Maldives election
2013-09-07 03:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Long queues formed outside polling booths before voting started under bright sunshine across the Indian Ocean archipelago, with the incumbent President Mohamed Waheed among the first to cast his ballot. Mr Waheed came to power in February 2012 when the first democratically elected president, Mohamed Nasheed, was forced from office following a mutiny by the security forces that he branded a "coup". Mr Nasheed, a British-educated scuba-diving fanatic who once held a cabinet meeting under water,...
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