Samoa's imam Husam-Aldin Stanley is not used to the spotlight in the overwhelmingly Christian Pacific Island nation. Each week, his small, low-profile mosque quietly welcomes Muslims for Friday ...

In early August, in the village of Utulei on the eastern shore of Tatuila, the largest of seven islands that make up American Samoa, more than two dozen local residents gathered in an auditorium. They ...

The trip follows Emhoff’s visit to New Zealand for the FIFA Women's World Cup. Second gentleman Doug Emhoff became the highest-profile U.S. official to visit Samoa Monday, looking to underscore the ...

The Samoan PM says he wants to clear out politics in Lakapi Samoa before he signs a new funding proposal for the Australian ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Samoa ’s Prime Minister said she would seek to dissolve Parliament, prompting an early election, after a vote on her government’s budget for the next year failed Tuesday ...

Samoan Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata’afa — the first female Head of Government in Samoa and the Pacific region — faced sexist heckling during a vote of non-confidence in March 2025. Despite ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — 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 ...

Official results from Samoa’s early general election held on August 29, indicate the Fa’atuatua i le Atua Samoa ua Tasi (FAST or “Samoa United in Faith”) Party has secured a decisive victory. FAST has ...