投稿者: Sheldon Chanel in Suva
The men’s gold and women’s bronze medals meant everything to Fiji, which has the highest per-capita Covid infection rate in the worldWhen the Fijian men’s sevens team beat New Zealand to win gold at the Tokyo Olympics on Wednesday, the entire nation ce…
Three-year-old boy among those missing in floodwaters in the country’s northern and western islandsOne person has died, and five, including a three-year-old boy, are still missing after Cyclone Ana pummelled Fiji on Sunday, just over a month after cate…
Fiji won a fierce contest to head the global rights group, but coalition of NGOs says repression and abuses domestically must be addressed Fiji has won an intense and secretive geo-political battle to become the first Pacific island nation to win presi…
Country’s expected ascension to human rights council presidency is being challenged by a China-backed bid by BahrainFor a small country in the South Pacific that joined the UN’s powerful human rights council for the first time in 2019, Fiji has made gi…
While the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic has so far spared the Pacific, its economies are in free-fall, the region’s chief diplomat warnsBeyond the health and economic crises of Covid-19, the global pandemic has the potential to cause political instabi…
Punishment of Sodelpa party for factional infighting leaves parliament with just three opposition members on the eve of a major budget debateThe political situation in Fiji, yet to fully recover from the effects of the 2006 coup, is in a tailspin once …
Video of the alleged assault caused a national uproar and points to deeper problem with violence in Pacific nation, say expertsA horrific video of high school students beating a classmate that went viral in Fiji last week has prompted calls for a natio…