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The latest on Ras Malé and the Malé region.
Progress · Oct 2026
Nobody has published a full bill for Ras Malé. But the pieces are on the record: a contractor-financed plan that failed, a budget line Parliament removed, a loan through HDC whose size is secret, and a waterfront deal the government says will pay much of it back.
Progress · Oct 2026
Reclaiming a thousand hectares of lagoon changes the sea around it. Here is what has been reported about Ras Malé's effects on reefs, water quality and fishing, what's been done to limit them, and why the government calls it a climate adaptation project.
Progress · Oct 2026
Five companies have been hired to reclaim Ras Malé in under three years, and two of them left with the work unfinished. Here is who each contractor is, which sites it took on, what it delivered and what it cost.
Progress · Oct 2026
Ras Malé is being built by ships. Giant dredgers suck sand from the seabed and pump it into the lagoon, and the arrival of bigger ones has done more than anything else to speed the project up. Here are the vessels involved and how they work.
Progress · Oct 2026
Ras Malé isn't being reclaimed as one island but as 12 sites, labelled A to L, with different contractors and very different progress. Here is what has been published about each one, and what hasn't.
Progress · Oct 2026
Ras Malé's land is being reclaimed in stages, and every deadline so far has slipped. Here is the full timeline, how far the work had got by September 2026, what has to happen after the dredging stops, and how long the whole city is expected to take.
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