Samoa

Samoa’s first female prime minister was targeted during a session of parliament by a male MP who said she should have “gotten married”.

Foreign Minister Penny Wong has made her second trip to the Pacific since being sworn less than two weeks ago, this time heading to Samoa.

Samoa’s Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata’afa has said Australia must do more to address the threat of climate change.

Samoa’s former Prime Minister has baselessly accused Jacinda Ardern of plotting his removal from office in a bid to install a female prime minister.

Fiame Naomi Mataafa is set to become Samoa’s first female prime minister after Samoa’s Supreme Court helped break a month-long deadlock

Samoa may be on the cusp of electing its first female Prime Minister, as the island nation’s women-led opposition party finds itself in a dead heat with the ruling party at the general election.