Fiji country profile | BBC §

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• Official Name: Republic of the Fiji Islands

• Capital: Suva

• Continent: Australia

• Population 900,000

• Major languages English, Fijian, Hindi

• President Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama was worn as prime minister in Sep 2014

  • 8 years before he overthrew the government in a coup as chief commander

• Press and public media exists and operate along side state-run media

  • Public press is restricted by the “draconian” decree though

• Lots of efforts to deal with climate change

  • fear of submerging low islands like the archipelago

1643 - Dutch explorer Abel Tasman is the first European to visit the islands.

1970 - Independence after a century of British rule.

1987 - The first of two coups overthrows the Indian majority government of Prime Minister Timoci Bavadra.

1999 - Mahendra Chaudhry is elected Fiji’s first ethnic Indian prime minister but is overthown a year later.

2014 - Former military leader Frank Bainimarama is elected prime minister, eight years after seizing power in a coup.