Samoa’s first female Prime Minister-elect has had a strange inaugural week in office. When Fiame Naomi Mata’afa turned up to the Pacific island nation’s Parliament on Monday to be sworn in ...

Samoa is set to get its first female prime minister, marking the end of unprecedented political drama in the small Pacific island nation of 200,000 people. On Monday, the Supreme Court finally ...

Samoa's first woman prime minister has been supported throughout her career by a group of powerful female friends.

In Brief. The prolonged constitutional crisis that had engulfed Samoa since the 9 April 2021 election finally concluded on 23 July with a Court of Appeal ruling. The court ruled that the 24 May ...

Samoa’s expected new prime minister has pledged to shelve a US$100 million Beijing-backed port development, calling the project excessive for the small Pacific island that is already heavily ...