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 ...

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, 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 ...

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 — Troops loyal to a defiant commander disarmed Fiji's police force today, escalating the South Pacific nation's political crisis but stopping short of unseating the elected government.

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 ...

The Republic of Fiji Military Forces has slowly but surely strangled the life out of Laisenia Qarase's government. Fiji's President Ratu Josefa Iloilo has signed an order dissolving Parliament and has ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has suspended aid to Fiji in response to a bloodless military coup that deposed the South Pacific island nation's elected prime minister, the State Department ...

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, ...