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95bFM: The Wednesday Wire with Paul Deady - Scoop.co.nz
95bFM: The Wednesday Wire with Paul Deady Scoop.co.nz The report "Fiji: Paradise Lost" is based on huge amounts of research and interviews conducted within the country in the wake of the coup, and calls for a ... |
President of military-led Fiji plans to step down - MSNBC Wire ...
Prior to the 2006 coup, the president and vice president were appointed by Fiji's traditional chiefs. That power now rests with the Cabinet and chief justice, who are seen as ...
Fiji faces possible suspension from Commonwealth - MSNBC Wire Services ...
Fiji has been suspended from the Commonwealth twice before — after its twin military coups of 1987 and again after a third coup in 2000. Nailatikau, a former armed forces ...
Commonwealth threatens Fiji with suspension - MSNBC Wire Services ...
Fiji was suspended from the Commonwealth after its twin military coups of 1987 and again after a third coup in 2000. But its membership has been restored each time.
Fiji's military ruler: New constitution by 2013 - MSNBC Wire Services ...
SUVA, Fiji - Fiji will have a new constitution in 2013 that abolishes the current split ... have all demanded an urgent return to democracy since Fiji's bloodless military coup in ...
Australia, NZ want UN to stop using Fiji troops - MSNBC Wire Services ...
Australia and New Zealand on Thursday renewed demands that the United Nations stop using Fiji troops for peacekeeping duties, more than two years after a military coup in the South ...
Fiji says Methodists can't meet - MSNBC Wire Services- msnbc.com
SUVA, Fiji - Fiji's military regime said Wednesday it would not allow the Methodist Church ... The military leader seized power in a December 2006 coup. Bainimarama's military regime has ...
Fiji military regime moves to control lawyers - MSNBC Wire Services ...
Fiji military regime moves to control lawyers ... to restore democracy since he seized power in a 2006 coup. New Zealand Prime Minister John Key said the move meant Fiji ...
Fiji regime plans to prolong media censorship - MSNBC Wire Services ...
Fiji regime plans to prolong media censorship ... His actions came one day after the Appeal Court ruled Bainimarama's 2006 coup and military ...
Fiji military leader says no elections for 5 years - MSNBC Wire ...
Fiji's military ruler defied international pressure to announce elections by Friday ... Bainimarama ousted the ethnic Fijian-dominated government in a 2006 coup and installed ...
Pacific Forum likely to suspend military-run Fiji - MSNBC Wire ...
... Appeal Court ruling that Bainimarama's 2006 coup and resulting military-led government were illegal, came two years after the nation's fourth coup since 1987. Among some Fiji ...
Fiji defiant after ouster from Pacific bloc - MSNBC Wire Services ...
Military-ruled Fiji remained defiant Saturday after its historic suspension from the 16 ... The coup-plagued nation was suspended from the regional bloc Saturday for what the forum ...
U.N. council demands resumption of Fiji democracy - MSNBC Wire ...
The U.N. Security Council deplored on Monday what it called a "step backwards" in Fiji ... interim prime minister on April 11, less than two days after a court ruled his 2006 coup ...
Fiji suspended from Pacific democracy bloc - MSNBC Wire Services ...
South Pacific nations announced Saturday that military-ruled Fiji has been suspended from ... Bainimarama ousted the ethnic Fijian-dominated government in a 2006 coup and installed ...
NZ: Fiji faces growing isolation in South Pacific - MSNBC Wire ...
Fiji has been run by military chief Commodore Frank Bainimarama since his 2006 coup, when he engineered his appointment as prime minister. He angered South Pacific nations by ...
UN bars Fijian peacekeepers in latest sanction - MSNBC Wire Services ...
The island nation has been ruled by military leader Frank Bainimarama since a 2006 coup. The U.N. decision apparently would not affect current Fijian peacekeeping missions. Fiji has ...
Fiji: Sacked top judges to be replaced soon - MSNBC Wire Services ...
... an official from Fiji's High Court issued a decree preventing legal challenges to decisions made by President Ratu Josefa Iloilo or other leaders since Fiji's fourth military coup ...
Fiji's president assumes power, fires judges - MSNBC Wire Services ...
Fiji's president suspended the constitution of his troubled South Pacific country on ... power in 2006 to retain to control despite a senior court's ruling Thursday that his coup ...
Fiji military leader rejects election ultimatum - MSNBC Wire Services ...
Wood's statement did not mention the issue of aid to Fiji. Bainimarama, whose 2006 coup was his country's fourth since 1987, promised the regional forum in 2007 that he would call ...
US endorses Pacific leaders' censure of Fiji govt - MSNBC Wire ...
Bainimarama's coup in 2006 was the fourth in Fiji since 1987. The Port Moresby statement threatened to suspend aid to Fiji if its government were to ignore the demand.