Samoa's Prime Minister-elect Fiame Naomi Mata'afa takes her oath at an unofficial ceremony outside parliament house in Apia, Samoa, on May 24, 2021. Anetone Sagaga/Samoa Observer/AP ...

Samoa’s first female Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata’afa faces entrenched patriarchal forces as she fights for re-election.

Samoa’s Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata’afa has called for those attending the meeting to dress comfortably, according to The Sunday Telegraph.

Samoa's Prime Minister-elect Fiame Naomi Mata'afa takes her oath at an unofficial ceremony outside parliament house in Apia, Samoa, Monday, May 24, 2021.

Samoa's first female prime minister has been sworn into office during an extraordinary makeshift tent ceremony. Fiame Naomi Mata'afa became the nation's leader on Monday after the islands' long ...

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.

Samoa held its 2021 general elections on April 9th. Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi, the world's second-longest serving prime minister with over twenty years on the job, was challenged by his former ...

The incumbent prime minister, Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi, who has led Samoa for 23 years, and members of his political party were nowhere in sight during Ms. Mata’afa’s ceremony.

Samoa’s first female Prime Minister-elect has had a strange inaugural week in office. When Fiame Naomi Mata’afa turned up to the Pacific island nation’s Parliament on Monday to be sworn in ...

Samoa's Prime Minister-elect Fiame Naomi Mata'afa takes her oath at an unofficial ceremony outside parliament house in Apia, Samoa, on May 24, 2021. Anetone Sagaga/Samoa Observer/AP ...

Samoa’s first female Prime Minister-elect has had a strange inaugural week in office. When Fiame Naomi Mata’afa turned up to the Pacific island nation’s Parliament on Monday to be sworn in ...