(CNN) — Samoa swore in its first female Prime Minister in a makeshift ceremony in a tent Monday after she was locked out of Parliament amid a power struggle with the country’s longstanding leader.

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 ...

Samoa Election FILE - Samoan Prime Minister Afioga Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa at the Foreign Ministers meeting during the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Apia ...

Samoa’s Prime Minister La’aulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt has barred Samoan Media agency, the Samoa Observer, from all future ...