On November 29, 2006, the Australian HMAS Kanimbla landing platform amphibious ship was taking part in intense anti-terrorism exercises off the coast of Fiji that entailed extracting personnel from ...

These findings reflect the tendency of Fijians to vote in favour of past coup leaders. Sitiveni Rabuka, for example, who led Fiji’s first coup of 1987, became prime minister after the 1992, 1994 and ...

Fiji’s political trajectory as a young Pacific nation struggling with its heterogeneity has attracted labels such as “coup-coup land” and “banana republic”. Since Fiji’s independence from the British ...

Like the 1987 coups triggered by Rabuka, the Speight coup devastated Fiji’s tourist-dependent economy, ... When Qarase won the May 2006 election, tensions with Bainimarama escalated.

The country experienced four coups between 1987 and 2006. Mr. Rabuka originally seized power in Fiji’s first coup, and Mr. Bainimarama in the last one.

Frank Bainimarama came to power in a 2006 coup but later won two elections to legitimise his rule Fijian opposition parties have reached a deal to form a new coalition government, ending Prime ...

Mr Bainimarama, 68, took control via a coup in 2006, becoming prime minister the following year. Meanwhile, Mr Rabuka was the leader of Fiji's first coup in 1987 and served as prime minister in ...

In 2006, Bainimarama, 68, led the country’s fourth coup in 20 years to seize control of Fiji. After eight years of holding onto power, he allowed general elections in 2014 and scored a sweeping ...

Bainimarama, Fiji's military commander at the time, in the Queen Elizabeth Barracks Officer's Mess, in the Fijian capital, Suva, following his daily media address on Dec. 7, 2006.

A former head of the armed forces who seized power in a coup in 2006, he won a general election on November 14th, for the second time in a row, ... → Fiji’s coup-makers act democratic; ...