FILE - In this Friday, Sept. 28, 2018, file photo, Fiji's Prime Minister Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama addresses the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters, in New York.

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 — 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 ...

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 ...

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - The military coup that deposed Fiji's prime minister and led to the South Pacific island nation's suspension from the Commonwealth can be resolved, Commonwealth Secretary-General ...

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 ...

SYDNEY, Australia — Fiji’s army defied the Pacific country’s police force yesterday by seizing thousands of rounds of ammunition, sparking fears that a coup may be imminent. Australia was preparing ...

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, ...