Coup leader Voreqe Bainimarama was Thursday on the verge of sweeping a historic vote to become Fiji’s first elected leader in eight years, as international observers gave the ballot a stamp of ...

George Speight - a former coup frontman in Fiji - is calling on the perpetrators of the country's past political upheavals to confess.

Military strongman Voreqe Bainimarama was on course Thursday to win the South Pacific nation’s first election since he staged a bloodless coup in 2006, official data showed. Preliminary results from ...

Mahendra Chaudhry - a former Fiji prime minister removed from power and held hostage during the 2000 coup - wants George ...

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 ...

Commodore Bainimarama also announced the resignation of Fiji's caretaker Prime Minister Jona Senilagakali, who he appointed last month after dissolving cabinet, suspending Parliament and banishing the ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SYDNEY (Reuters) - Former coup leader George Speight, sentenced to life imprisonment in Fiji in 2002 for treason, was released ...