China’s influence operations in Samoa have been patient, persistent, and, as the election proved, profoundly effective.

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 ’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 ...

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 ...

President Biden overwhelmingly won the Democratic contests on Super Tuesday, with one notable exception — American Samoa. The American territory, an island located in the South Pacific Ocean, voted ...

Samoan Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa has lived a life of historic firsts. She became the country's first female prime minister, after , who ruled Samoa for 22 years. Before that, she was the ...

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 ...

In June 2019, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. traveled to the small Pacific island nation of Samoa, where he met with activists calling for Samoans to skip measles vaccines and opt for alternatives instead. Now ...