WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Samoa's incumbent ruling party will return to power with a new leader at the helm after the first woman prime minister was toppled in elections that followed months of ...

NEWCASTLE, Australia (AP) — 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 ...

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 the head ...

For Samoan taxi driver Muaautasi Kirifi Su'a, life is tough at the moment — and he has a lot of mouths to feed. "We have six children, but we have 10 grandkids," he tells the ABC. "Overall that's 18 ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- Samoa went to the polls Friday in a critical election that could decide the future of the Pacific Island nation's first woman leader, who called the vote after her ...

Samoa's government has confirmed the Prime Minister did not request his matai title after all. Christopher Luxon is in Apia for a bilateral meeting with his counterpart La'aulialemalietoa Leuatea ...

The first day of sitting of Samoa’s parliament on January 21 ended with a threat by Prime Minister Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa. She warned that if a vote of no confidence was tabled against her, she would ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Samoa’s incumbent ruling party will return to power with a new leader at the helm after the first woman prime minister was toppled in elections that followed months of ...