Fiji coup leader returns as PM

Frank Bainimarama has been reappointed as Fiji's prime minister just two days after an appeals court declared his military government was illegal.Ratu Josefa Iloilo, the president, swore in the former military chief as caretaker prime minister on Saturday after annulling the constitution and giving himself executive powers.Iloilo issued a decree on Friday allowing him to appoint a new leader of the government in the South Pacific island nation.Bainimarama is expected to name his cabinet ministers later on Saturday, local media reports said.Bainimarama originally became prime minister after forcing out Laisenia Qarase in a bloodless military coup in December 2006.After declaring the coup illegal, the court ordered that Iloilo appoint a distinguished person to act as caretaker prime minister, but said that person should neither be Bainimarama nor Qarase, who had brought the case.