Samoa
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‘Women have not been able hold these: Samoa’s first female PM gets down to the job
After months of political turmoil, following the country’s most contentious election, Fiama Naomi Mata’afa is …
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Samoa’s political crisis ends and first female prime minister installed after court ruling
Fiame Naomi Mata’afa was confirmed by Samoa’s court of appeal to be the country’s first female prime minister,…
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Samoa is experiencing a bloodless coup. The Pacific’s most stable democracy is in trouble | Fiona Ey
The government’s actions after last month’s elections call democracy into question and set a dangerous precede…
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Samoa’s ruling party faces strongest election challenge in 20 years
The second-longest serving prime minister in the world is being challenged by his former deputySamoa’s ruling …
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Sea of resilience: how the Pacific fought against Covid
A new documentary shows that while the health impacts of the pandemic have - so far - been largely avoided, th…
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Facebook’s Australia ban threatens to leave Pacific without key news source
Media experts fear that communities reliant on the site for information will suffer significant impactFacebook…
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‘Integrity comes from the top down’: whistleblower vice-chancellor vows to fight on despite exile
Exclusive: expelled from Fiji, Professor Pal Ahluwalia says he remains committed to University of the South Pa…
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‘We had no paper, no pens, but we had our bodies’: the sacred and symbolic in Pasifika tattoos | Lagipoiva Cherelle
The New Zealand foreign minister’s moko has become international news, but beyond an identifier, our tatau are…
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Samoa records its first Covid-19 case – imported from Australia
A repatriation flight has brought the first case to the Pacific archipelago, which has successfully kept the v…
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Allies turned adversaries: Samoa’s former deputy PM to challenge her former leader
The most stable democracy in the Pacific is undergoing a seismic political shift as the country approaches ele…
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Samoa’s ruling party faces new threat – after nearly 40 years in power
Prime minister Tuilaepa Sailele Lupesoliai Malielegaoi has ruled for 22 years, but a former ally leads a new c…
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Football’s first fa’afafine: trans rights trailblazer Jaiyah Saelua on stardom and sisterhood
Fa’afafine athlete and advocate Jaiyah Saelua, and Kaimana, the fa’afafine actor who will play her in Taika Wa…
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Samoan chief who enslaved villagers sentenced to 11 years in New Zealand
New Zealand-based Joseph Auga Matamata used 13 of his countrymen as slaves over a quarter of centuryA New Zeal…
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‘It’s broken me into a million pieces’: six months on from Samoa’s deadly measles outbreak
In the shadow of the epidemic that claimed the lives of 83 children, families live with constant reminders of …
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Coronavirus in the Pacific: weekly briefing
Covid-19-related developments throughout the Pacific IslandsThe total number of cases of Covid-19 infection li…