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 ...

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 ...

Tuesday's slow-cooked coup has undermined Fiji's tourism business, which attracts 400,000 visitors a year and is Fiji's biggest earner. After the 2000 coup, Fiji saw a 10 percent contraction in ...

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.

"We're bound to have another coup if he doesn't win," said 30-year-old Robert Lum On, a recent university graduate. Fiji became independent from the U.K. in 1970. In 1987, Rabuka staged two ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Fiji's military chief was sworn in as interim prime minister Friday, one month after seizing control of the South Pacific nation in an armed coup, dissolving Parliament and banishing the elected ...

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 ...