カテゴリー: Samoa
Samoa and Tonga raise supply concerns with foreign partners as businesses and residents in Papua New Guinea grapple with higher fuel prices amid the Iran warThe leaders of some Pacific countries have appealed for help with oil supplies while others urg…
Prime minister has accused the Samoa Observer of inaccurate reporting during his eight-week medical stay in New ZealandSamoa’s only daily newspaper has been banned from attending press conferences with the Samoan prime minister, in a move that critics …
Fiame Naomi Mata’afa, known as the ‘Iron Lady of the Pacific’, likely to be replaced by leader of opposition Fast partySamoa’s first female leader, Fiame Naomi Mata’afa, has failed to win a majority in the Pacific nation’s elections this week, capping …
Samoans began voting on Friday in parliamentary elections amid personal rivalries and geopolitical tensions Samoa went to the polls on Friday in a national election called early by the caretaker prime minister, Fiamē Naomi Mata’afa, after months of pol…
Samoa, Fiji and Tonga among the worst affected amid warning the disease and others will become ‘more common and more serious’ as the planet warmsThe climate crisis is driving a sharp rise in dengue fever cases across the Pacific islands, experts say, a…
Pacific country this week declared state of emergency over power cuts that have caused huge disruption to businesses and daily lifeSamoa is in the grip of an “energy crisis” prime minister Fiame Naomi Mata’afa said this week, as she declared a state of…
Analyst says while USAid supports hundreds of jobs, the most significant damage from Donald Trump’s cuts will be to US relations with the PacificThe dismantling of USAid by president Donald Trump is having a ripple effect across the Pacific as people w…
Samoa’s prime minister says US withdrawal from Paris climate agreement is ‘very disappointing’ and puts the survival of Pacific countries at greater riskLeaders and environmental advocates in the Pacific have expressed alarm over Donald Trump’s decisio…
In an exclusive interview, Fiame Naomi Mataʻafa tells the Guardian she is surprised at Trump’s pick for health secretary and criticised anti-vaxxers for their part in 2019 measles crisisSamoa’s prime minister, Fiame Naomi Mataʻafa, has criticised Rober…
Interim report into the October disaster blames human error, saying HMNZS Manawanui’s ‘autopilot was not disengaged when it should have been’ A series of human errors caused a New Zealand navy ship to plough into a reef off the coast of Samoa, where it…
A few months before the outbreak in 2019, Kennedy travelled to Samoa and met with anti-vaccine figures, contributing to what health experts claim was a ‘significant disinformation campaign’The week before her three children died, Fa’aoso Tuivale and he…
UK government stresses it does not pay reparations and said before Chogm summit that issue was not on agendaCommonwealth leaders have resolved that “the time has come” for a conversation on reparatory justice despite the UK’s insistence that the issue …
King Charles sipped on kava on his visit to Samoa this week while an Australian politician paid a high price for downing too much in MicronesiaKava, the traditional Pacific drink, was served to King Charles III on Thursday while he was declared “high c…
Rachel Reeves to encourage import of raw materials from Commonwealth countries to counter China’s grip on market Businesses that import critical minerals to the UK will be given access to state-backed loans in a move to counter China’s dominance in the…
Starmer under pressure from Caribbean countries at Commonwealth talks but is refusing payments or apologyKeir Starmer has opened the door to non-financial reparations for the UK’s role in the transatlantic enslavement, as he came under pressure from Co…