Samoan Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata’afa — the first female Head of Government in Samoa and the Pacific region — faced sexist heckling during a vote of non-confidence in March 2025. Despite ...

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 ...

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 failed Tuesday ...

In a busy year of Pacific Island elections, a worrying gender disparity is evident. This has implications for the quality of democracy in the region. Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine (right) ...

Lazayeus Bartley will be charged with two counts of aggravated battery and one count of aggravated fleeing and eluding with injuries. Read full article: Jacksonville Navy ship USS Cooperstown deploys ...