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Abdullah Afeef
Abdullah Afeef was a Maldivian leader who became president of the breakaway United Suvadive Republic in 1959. A notable of Addu Atoll, where Britain had an air base at Gan, he led the southern atolls' revolt against the government in Malé over taxes and trade restrictions. After the republic was dissolved in 1963 he went into exile in the Seychelles, where he died.
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