2025 in Samoa

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See also:	Other events of 2025; Timeline of Samoan history;

Events in the year 2025 in Samoa.

Incumbents

6 January – Mahonri Schwalger resigns as coach of the Samoa national rugby union team following allegations of sexual misconduct.^[1]
10 January – Laauli Leuatea Schmidt is dismissed as agriculture and fisheries minister following allegations of misconduct.^[2]
14 January – Prime Minister Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa dismisses Women, Community and Social Development minister Mulipola Anarosa Ale-Molio'o, Communication and Information Technology minister Toelupe Poumulinuku Onesemo and Commerce, Industry, and Labor minister Leota Laki Sio amid a dispute within her FAST Party.^[3]
15 January – FAST party chair Laauli Leuatea Schmid expels Prime Minister Mata'afa and four other cabinet ministers from the party.^[4]
23 January – Samoa and China sign a new visa exemption agreement.^[5]
29 January – Authorities seize 10 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine from a shipping container that arrived from the United States and arrest three people in what is reported as the "largest known drug smuggling operation" in the country.^[6]

8 February – Miss Samoa's Litara Ieremia Allan wins the 2025 Miss Pacific Islands pageant in the Solomon Islands.^[7]
12 February – The Samoan Government lifts a "precautionary zone" around the wreckage of HMNZS Manawanui following testing by the Scientific Research Organisation of Samoa (SROS). However, a 2 km prohibition zone around the sunken ship remains in force.^[8]
25 February – Prime Minister Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa survives a no-confidence motion filed against her in parliament by the Human Rights Protection Party.^[9]

27 May – The government of Prime Minister Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa collapses after its budget is voted down by parliament.^[10]

15 August — The Government announces changes to the school calendar after a dengue outbreak delays the opening of schools nationwide.^[11]
29 August – 2025 Samoan general election: The FAST party wins a majority of 30 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Samoa, followed by the Human Rights Protection Party with 14.^[12] Prime Minister Mata'afa's Samoa Uniting Party wins three seats, making her unable to retain the premiership.^[13]