The Maldives man with a plan to save the world - Asia, World - The Independent

First he must stop his own nation sinking. But the Pacific president and eco-activist won't stop there, he tells Oliver Wright

By conventional standards Mohamed Nasheed should already have achieved his lifetime's ambition.

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After six years of jail, torture and exile, the former investigative journalist became his country's first democratically elected President, peacefully overturning a 30-year dictatorship to make the Maldives one of the first Islamic countries in the world to embrace multi-party politics.

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