Fiji government in hiding as coup deadline passes
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Fiji's cabinet is in hiding fearing a military coup as the island nation's rebel army chief delayed enforcing a noon deadline for the government to meet his demands.
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A state of emergency is imposed in Fiji, three months after the previous one was lifted.
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Anti-government protesters scattered into hiding Friday to dodge arrest after a wave of protests over higher prices, as the military government wrapped up its work to draft guidelines for a new constitution.
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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.
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Fears of an imminent coup in Fiji grew on Monday as Australia and New Zealand warned their citizens to avoid travel to the island nation and South Pacific neighbors called a regional crisis meeting.
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Soldiers surround the home of Fiji PM Laisenia Qarase, as he tells the BBC that a coup is imminent.
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Fiji's military chief is likely to carry out his threat to overthrow the government early Monday, a report quoted government and military sources as saying.
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Fiji's position within the influential Pacific Islands Forum was under threat as the military set about forming an interim cabinet following the recent coup.
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Fiji Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase said he was under house arrest on Tuesday after heavily armed troops surrounded his residence in the capital Suva, and accused the military of staging a coup.
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Heavily armed Fijian troops put up roadblocks throughout the capital on Monday night as fears of a fourth coup in 20 years gripped the South Pacific nation.
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Britain has suspended military assistance to Fiji after the Pacific island nation's armed forces overthrew the government in a coup.
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The military regime announced Sunday a crackdown on critics of Fiji's coup, just hours after a house that had become a rallying point for those wanting a return to democracy was ransacked by unknown assailants.
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Fiji's military coup may have been bloodless and effective, but it is already hitting trouble as resistance to the regime mounts and the effects of the coup bite hard into the fragile economy.
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An uneasy calm has settled on Fiji's capital, a day after a bloodless military coup that world leaders condemned as an outrage which would plunge the fragile nation into economic hardship and isolation.
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New elections may be two years away, Fiji's military-appointed caretaker prime minister said on Thursday as the island nation's powerful tribal chiefs called on soldiers to lay down their arms after this week's bloodless coup.
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Fiji Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase gave in to a raft of demands by his defiant military chief on Thursday after an overnight show of force in which troops secured strategic parts of the capital amid fears of an imminent coup.
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Fijian soldiers take up positions at the headquarters of the armed police unit, amid fears of a coup.