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 ...

FILE - Samoa's Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa, right, talks to New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern during a bilateral meeting in Wellington, New Zealand, Tuesday, June 14, 2022. (Hagen ...

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 ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — 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 ...

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 ...

Voters in Pacific nation Samoa cast ballots in a general election Friday after the government collapsed following months of political infighting. Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa -- also known as ...

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 ...

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