The Latest Breaking News from Samoa

So, is the Commonwealth conference in Samoa going to be dominated by the possibility that Britain will be asked to pay billions of pounds in reparations for the evils of the slave trade? It does rather look like it.

Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting participants in Samoa want ‘meaningful conversation’ about reparations for the transatlantic slave trade

King Charles sipped traditional ava root tea during a Samoan ceremony welcoming him and Queen Camilla to the island nation.

A Bahamian foreign affairs minister has said a discussion should take place about the ‘ill effects’ of the slave trade.

Several Pacific island nations singled out Australia to do more to phase out fossil fuel exports during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting which opened in Samoa on Thursday

Draft communique containing agreement to re-examine slave trade reparations adds to building pressure on PM

Camilla shared a Samoan legend and spoke of the spirit needed to end domestic and sexual violence across the Commonwealth.

Samoa's head of state and his village afforded the King the highest accolade by staging an ava ceremony

Tuvalu’s Prime Minister Feleti Teo took to a stage in Apia, Samoa, on Thursday morning to say something pointed. Planned fossil fuel expansions in nations such as Australia represented, for his nation, a “death sentence”. The phrase “death sentence”, Teo said, had not been chosen lightly. He followed up with…