Voters in Fiji looked to have re-elected the ruling party of former military leader Frank Bainimarama, an outcome likely to entrench China’s growing influence in the South Pacific. Fiji has long ...

Fiji’s first coup in 1987 saw an elected, Indian-dominated coalition overthrown by indigenous Fijians, leading to the implementation, and later withdrawal, of a constitution that guaranteed ...

The dead officer is the only victim of the coup attempt so far. A group of tribal leaders said Wednesday that Fiji's influential chiefs should be called upon to resolve the crisis. "The solution ...

He may have been helped by the fact that his main opponent was another former coup leader and army commander, Sitiveni Rabuka, who started Fiji’s cycle of coups and counter-coups back in 1987.

Fiji coup leader Frank Bainimarama has declared himself the new prime minister, four days after the country’s first democratic election in eight years. “My fellow Fijians, as you know Fiji ...

THE tables were turned on Fiji's coup leader, George Speight, yesterday when he was charged with treason for leading a gang of gunmen into parliament and overthrowing the elected, multiracial ...

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.

Suva - The leader of Fiji's coup, who paved the way for a new state based on racial domination by indigenous islanders, said on Friday that he had been severely beaten while awaiting trial. As the ...

Suva - Perhaps it's all just another of Fiji's now famous conspiracy theories, but police here are looking seriously at a link between the May coup and the country's lucrative timber resources.

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 ...

SYDNEY, Sept 19 (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 ...