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Joseph Auga Matamata lured villagers to his adoptive country promising work and study, reaping ‘bags of cash’ from their unpaid forced labourWhen Loto* saw the police arrive at the rural property in New Zealand where he had been held captive for nearly…
Read MoreCovid-19-related developments throughout the Pacific IslandsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe Covid-19 pandemic became very real in the Pacific islands this week, as the region recorded its first death and the total number…
Read MoreA foreign mine worker is confirmed as the country’s first case, as Guam records the Pacific region’s first Covid-19 deathPapua New Guinea will enter into a two-week state of emergency on Tuesday after the country confirmed its first case of Covid-19, a…
Read MoreJoseph Auga Matamata, who brought people to Hastings where they were forced to work without pay and subjected to abuse, also convicted of slaveryA New Zealand-based Samoan chief has been found guilty of human trafficking and using 13 of his countrymen …
Read MoreLiners with thousands of passengers onboard remain stranded on the high seasAs countries across the world scramble to close their borders in response to the global Covid-19 pandemic, several cruise ships, some laden with thousands of passengers, are st…
Read MoreRefusal of entry to citizens after transiting through Singapore is illegal, expert warnsSamoa’s decision to refuse entry into the country of eight of its citizens over coronavirus fears has been criticised as a violation of international law by a legal…
Read MoreParticular fears exist for Samoa, where authorities are discussing emergency measures to protect against Sars-like virusPacific nations are ramping up security measures at ports and airports amid fears the deadly coronavirus could arrive on their shore…
Read MoreSix-week state of emergency is lifted after disease killed 81 people and sickened more than 5,600 othersSamoa has lifted a six-week state of emergency after the infection rate from a measles outbreak that has swept the country started to come under con…
Read MoreThe unprecedented health crisis has claimed 76 lives, mostly children. Now questions are being asked about how it came to this“Every time I visit my baby, I see a morgue full of dead babies,” says a mother sitting at Tupua Tamasese Meaole National Hosp…
Read MoreNation lifts two-day curfew amid rise in mandatory vaccinations and arrest of ‘anti-vaxxer’Samoa has said nearly 90% of eligible people have been vaccinated against measles as it lifted a two-day curfew imposed amid an outbreak that has killed 65 in re…
Read MoreWorkers told to stay home during two-day drive to control virus that has killed 62 peopleSamoa’s main streets were eerily quiet on Thursday as the government stepped up efforts to curb a measles epidemic that has killed 62 people.The government told mo…
Read MoreOtago Daily Times criticised for cartoon joking about measles outbreak that has killed 55A New Zealand newspaper has caused outrage for publishing a cartoon that made light of the measles crisis engulfing Samoa, which has killed 55 people so far, most …
Read MoreIn six weeks, a measles outbreak has infected 3,000 people out of a population of 200,000, killing 42, mostly childrenFa’aoso Tuivale sleeps on her children’s grave during the day, when she misses them most.She and her husband, Tuivale Luamanuvae Puelu…
Read MoreUN agency says fall in vaccination rates has paved way for ‘huge outbreak’ in Pacific island nationA measles epidemic in Samoa has killed 39 people, with the World Health Organization (WHO) blaming an anti-vaccine messaging campaign for leaving the Pac…
Read MoreChildren under five account for all but one of the deaths as suspected cases double to 1,644 Deaths related to measles have risen to 20 in the past week on the Pacific island of Samoa, the government has said, eight days after declaring a state of emer…
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