Coup leader Voreqe Bainimarama was Thursday on the verge of sweeping a historic vote to become Fiji’s first elected leader in eight years, as international observers gave the ballot a stamp of ...

Military strongman Voreqe Bainimarama was on course Thursday to win the South Pacific nation’s first election since he staged a bloodless coup in 2006, official data showed. Preliminary results from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SYDNEY (Reuters) - Former coup leader George Speight, sentenced to life imprisonment in Fiji in 2002 for treason, was released ...

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 ...

(IPI/IFEX) – The following is an IPI press release: Vienna, 5 December 2006 IPI Condemns Intimidation of Media During Fiji Coup The International Press Institute (IPI) is deeply concerned by 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, 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 ...

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 ...