Samoa is currently undergoing a constitutional crisis after the long-term Prime Minister locked the new leader out of Parliament. Prime Minister-elect Fiame Naomi Mata'afa is Samoa's first female ...

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 remained in charge. The fast-moving ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Samoa was ...

Samoa’s first female Prime Minister-elect has had a strange inaugural week in office. When Fiame Naomi Mata’afa turned up to the Pacific island nation’s Parliament on Monday to be sworn in, she found ...

The Government of Samoa has rejected claims that its move against the Samoa Observer amounts to an attack on media freedom, ...

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 ...

A constitutional crisis deepened in the Pacific Island nation of Samoa, which now has two competing governments and two claimants to the prime ministership. By Natasha Frost Fiame Naomi Mata’afa ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - 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 ...