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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SUVA, Fiji (AP) -- Fiji's prime minister went into hiding Friday in anticipation of a coup, but a deadline set by the country's defiant military commander passed without the threatened ouster of the ...

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 (Reuters) - Fiji's president reappointed former coup leader Commodore Frank Bainimarama to head the politically unstable South Pacific nation's government on Saturday, less than two days after a ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Two former coup leaders are seen as the leading contenders in Fiji's general election on Wednesday, the second to be held since 2006 when then-commander of the armed forces Frank ...

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 ...

On April 10, Fijian President declared a state of emergency and suspended the constitution. Elections, scheduled for this year, have been delayed for five years. Commodore Frank Bainimarama, who first ...

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 ...