WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Samoa ’s Prime Minister said she would seek to dissolve Parliament, prompting an early election, after a vote on her government’s budget for the next year ...

Samoa’s turmoil reflects broader political instability across the Pacific, ... The health system permanently struggles. For every 1,000 babies born in 2022, 16 died before their fifth birthday.

Samoa’s first female Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata’afa faces entrenched patriarchal forces as she fights for re-election.

Samoa’s parliament was dissolved on June 3 after the government of Prime Minister Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa failed a week earlier to have its 2025 Budget approved. Conceding defeat, Fiamē advised ...

Samoa will head to the polls on Aug. 29, a half-year earlier than expected, after Prime Minister Fiamē Naomi Mata’afa’s government collapsed following a budget defeat in parliament late last ...

As of 2024, nearly 5,000 needy, elderly, blind or disabled individuals in American Samoa receive ASNAP benefits from the government. These benefits provide essential food assistance to supplement ...

RFK Jr. asked to explain vaccine stance, pressed about measles outbreak in Samoa 07:11. As U.S. senators grill Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this week, President Trump's pick to run the Department of ...