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 ...

The South Pacific island nation of Samoa will hold a snap election on Aug. 29 after Prime Minister Fiamē Naomi Mata’afa’s government collapsed following a budget defeat.

Samoa’s parliament was dissolved on June 3 after the government of Prime Minister Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa failed a week earlier to have its 2025 Budget approved. Conceding defeat, Fiamē advised ...

Samoa’s election at the end of August may be seen as an opportunity for foreign partners to deepen engagement and offer new ...

According to the 2023 Samoa Poverty and Hardship Report, 21.9 percent of Samoa’s population lives below the basic-needs poverty line, 3 percentage points higher than in 2013‒14.

Samoa will head to the polls on Aug. 29, a half-year earlier than expected, after Prime Minister Fiamē Naomi Mata’afa’s government collapsed following a budget defeat in parliament late last ...