Daniel Bosley

Daniel Bosley is a British journalist and author of the book ‘Descent into Paradise: A Journalist’s Memoir of the Untold Maldives’. He has recently launched a Substack, ‘Trouble in Paradise’, focusing on small island developing states.

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On 31 March, in a landmark verdict, a judge from the British Indian Ocean Territory ruled that Chagossians, who had been expelled in their entirety from the archipelago by the United Kingdom in the 1960s, had a legal right to live on the Chagos islands. This put a wrench in the works of a planned handover of the Chagos archipelago from the United Kingdom to Mauritius, which claims sovereignty over the islands. Taking advantage of these shifts, the president of the Maldives, Mohamed Muizzu, is now staking a Maldivian claim to the archipelago.

Muizzu’s Maldives cooks up a sovereignty dispute over the Chagos Islands

24 Apr 2026

Buildings along the coast of the Maldives’ capital. Although essential services are often neglected in the country’s atolls, poverty and inequality are also rising in Malé. Photo: Ibrahim Mushan / Unsplash

Strains between Malé and the atolls in the Maldives

27 Sep 2023

Photo: dyingregime / Flickr

Beyond the ballot box

22 Oct 2018

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