Samoa has its first-ever female prime minister, and the first new leader in 22 years. But Fiame Naomi Mata’afa comes to power at a fraught time. The dawning of a new political era in Samoa has ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand--Samoa was plunged into a constitutional crisis Monday when the woman who won an election last month was locked out of Parliament and the previous leader claimed he ...

Given the HRPP’s refusal to accept the April election results, the Samoan speaker refused the party’s MPs entry to parliament. The dawning of a new political era in Samoa has proved ...

Samoa's first female prime minister has been sworn into office in a tent after she was locked out of parliament by her opponent, who has refused to step down. Fiame Naomi Mata'afa took the oath of ...

one member of the Samoan community in the gallery suggested that "now we know [we are] people of this land, we are sharing the same DNA." RNZ's The House, with insights into Parliament ...

Samoa is set to get its first female prime minister, marking the end of unprecedented political drama in the small Pacific island nation of 200,000 people. On Monday, the Supreme Court finally ...

New Zealand Internal Affairs office confirmed the it received 154 applications, 71 of them from Samoa, and over 100 more ...

Serious charges including robbery accusations against the Samoan Member of Parliament for Sagaga No.1 Loau Keneti Sio have ...

Labour warmly welcomes the Restoring Samoan Citizenship Bill as it passes its third reading, before becoming law. Those born in Samoa on or after 13 May 1924 and before 1 January 1949, and whose ...

New Zealand's Parliament will today hear the third and ... later overturned this ruling through the Citizenship (Western Samoa) Act, taking the citizenship away again. Now, after years of advocacy ...