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Cryptodegen:
Dwayne is American Samoa, a USA territory, this Samoa is a country in oceania

Samoa's first female prime minister has been sworn into office in a tent after she was locked out of parliament by her opponent, who has refused to step down.

Fiame Naomi Mata'afa took the oath of office in a marquee in the parliament's gardens, leaving uncertainty over who controls the Pacific island nation.

Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi, who has been prime minister for 22 years, has ignored a court order to step down.

Ms Mata'afa, 64, arrived at parliament on Monday expecting to be sworn in.

But the former deputy prime minister, who arrived alongside the country's chief justice, found herself barred from the building, which had been locked by allies of Mr Malielegaoi in advance of her arrival.

Instead, Ms Mata'afa and members of her Faatuatua i le Atua Samoa ua Tasi (FAST) party instead gathered in a marquee on parliament's gardens, in the capital Apia, with supporters looking on, and were sworn in one by one.

In a statement, the FAST party said: "Democracy must prevail, always. There can be no exceptions from this fundamental principle. Those who claim otherwise and act accordingly play with fire."

The ad-hoc ceremony was rejected by rivals as unofficial. Mr Malielegaoi called the improvised swearing in ceremony "illegal and unlawful".

The controversy comes a month after the closest run general election in Samoa's history - an election followed by bitter disputes and legal challenges.

Mr Malielegaoi's Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP) was ousted from power after four decades by Ms Mata'afa's insurgent FAST party. Both parties won 25 seats, but a single independent MP broke the tie in favour of the FAST.

That led to legal manoeuvring by the HRPP, which claimed its opponents had not correctly met the quota of female MPs. Samoa's election commission revoked the results of the April vote and called a fresh election for 21 May.

But five days ahead of the re-run, the country's supreme court ruled against the UHPP, re-endorsing the results of the election and ordering the swearing in of Ms Mata'afa to go ahead.

After 22 years in charge, Mr Malielegaoi is the world's second longest serving prime minister.

After serving as Polynesia's first female deputy prime minister, Ms Mata'afa success in the general election makes her only the second woman in the region to head a government.

She is the daughter of the country's first prime minister, and has been politically active since the mid 1980s.

Chimeluv:
When you get married to a white chick

900warriorz:
Life without God, na nonsense

This same man said it is not in his lifetime that Oduduwa or Biafran agitators will succeed....now, they will succeed while he's dead

Pepecushy:
Only Jesus fit do am

okeyglm:
lol with no airforce. shame

okeyglm:
EWU go and check who Israel has been flogging I'm Syria since past 6yrs.umuaka self

Privatepart00:
@compton11 stop replying that guy he’s not informed about the happenings of the 2006 war Hezbollah fought with Israel.
Israel was defeated hands down by Hezbollah reason they haven’t been attacked since 2006.
IDF can only target civilians but the Hezbollah movement target their military formation that’s the difference

okeyglm:
fool Google is not far from your Internet. Israel have never been an initiator of war. lol fool u don't know the meaning of underground bunker shame. ur ill informed I can sensed that.

okeyglm:
na your papa gave them second most powerful country.

ablejesus26:
I am God's own.Israel is God's own too,that is why I stand with Israel.
Mind you the relationship between America and Israel is very mutual.
They scratch each other's back.

okeyglm:
Israel has been raping hezbollah from Syria to Lebanon.

okeyglm:
what is deterring hezbollah from firing the multi rockets like before.

okeyglm:
why did hezbollah from leave southern Lebanon leaving their long dream of capturing northern galilee.

okeyglm:
why is nasarralla moving from one bunker to the another if they won . and even regretted their actions. get sense ewu

okeyglm:
shup up its a modern conventional warfare that features latest technologies.

okeyglm:
your olodo. you don't anything about warfare. go and read what Israel Drones did in Armenia war. then come back and have sense.

okeyglm:
go and sit down . nassarallah even admitted they couldn't tried taken the 8 israeli hostage. why hasn't the stupid hezbollah not tried any nonsense since 15yrs now. hamas also said they won against Israel in this last concluded fight.

okeyglm:
Israeli air force will cripple Iran military assets in two days. if you know the power of f 35s f16 and kamikaze drones etc. the only thing Iran have I's long range missile in which David sling is capable of handling

okeyglm:
I am talking about military assets

okeyglm:
hezbollah didn't defeat Israel proof ur statistics

Casper21:
Do they own ur body what do u mean

joyandfaith:
Can u pls explain this?

Muslims believe that Ishmael was the firstborn of Abraham

joyandfaith:
born to him from his wife Sarah's slave, Hagar.

joyandfaith:
Ishmael is recognized by Muslims as the ancestor of several northern prominent Arab tribes and the forefather of Adnan, the ancestor of Muhammad.

joyandfaith:
Muslims also believe that Muhammad was the descendant of Ishmael who would establish a great nation, as promised by God in the Old Testament.

joyandfaith:
Who was father of arabs?

joyandfaith:
Fool
Who was father of arabs?

Valkrie:
And this bastered edorgan who champion the Armnia genocide and responsible for killing thousand of Kurdish people..he should just shot up...!!

joyandfaith:
Hatred between Arabs and Jews

Gen 16;11,12

Jehovah’s angel added: “Here you are pregnant, and you will give birth to a son, and you must name him Ishʹma·el, for Jehovah has heard your affliction. 12 He will be a wild donkey of a man. His hand will be against everyone, and everyone’s hand will be against him, and he will dwell opposite all his brothers

okeyglm:
Israel airforce will cripple Iran with 2 days.

okeyglm:
what was statistics of head to head casualties Mr defeater

Righteousness2:
They recongnize or they don't recongnize! Israel is their Father!
Israel is their Head!
Israel is the Chief Corner stone of the World!

Argue with keypads!

Casper21:
How can a government dictate what to wear. Mehn this is absurd. KOREA people dey try, meanwhile Japanese school girls dey wear one kind short skirt to class I dunno if it do tempt their boys

akeentech:
People running Nigeria, 7 Hausa/Fulani 6 Yoruba.
They marginalized igbos even in death

Amotolongbo:
The fact that no single Igbo in his crew speaks something about him