SUVA, Fiji — Fiji's coup leader said today that the military could rule for "up to 50 years" unless the Pacific island's powerful tribal chiefs approve an interim government. The editor of one of Fiji ...

Failed Fijian coup leader George Speight and six others were released from prison on Thursday after being granted a pardon by President Ratu Wiliame Katonivere, who acted on the advice of Fiji’s Mercy ...

In December 2024, after years of debate among Fiji’s political leaders, the country’s parliament passed a law establishing a Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The initiative was a bid to draw a ...

SUVA (Reuters) - Fiji's military commander tightened his grip on power when he was sworn in as interim prime minister on Friday, exactly a month after his bloodless coup overthrew the South Pacific ...

Sister Teresia urges coup leaders to seek public forgiveness at Fiji Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearing.

SUVA, Fiji -- Fiji's coup leader ran want ads in local newspapers Saturday to fill vacant Cabinet jobs, trying to piece together a new government for the south Pacific country. Army chief Frank ...

SUVA, Fiji (voa) – Fiji’s high court has sentenced coup leader George Speight to death for leading an armed uprising that toppled Fiji’s elected government in May, 2000. Monday’s sentencing came soon ...

Fiji coup leader George Speight on Tuesday began a life prison term for treason after escaping the hangman's noose, but few in the ethnically divided South Pacific nation believe he will spend the ...

SUVA, Fiji (AP) -- Fiji's military overthrew the elected government Tuesday after weeks of threats, locking down the capital and putting the prime minister under house arrest in the fourth coup in the ...

SUVA (Reuters) - Fiji Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase refused to resign on Wednesday in the face of threats from the country's military chief, warning a coup would have dire consequences for the South ...

Other Pacific Island countries face threats -- corruption, a failure to deliver services and a lack of productive jobs prominent -- but coups are not among them. Simply, they can count themselves ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Former coup leader George Speight, sentenced to life imprisonment in Fiji in 2002 for treason, was released from prison on Thursday after he was pardoned by Fiji's Mercy Commission, ...