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

The territory has handed the president his first loss. President Joe Biden lost the Democratic presidential caucuses for American Samoa on Tuesday. A little-known candidate, Jason Palmer, won over ...

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 ...

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'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 ...

Samoa's likely new prime minister has announced that "the era of God-centred leadership" has begun in the country after the provisional results of its snap election have shown a new government will ...