2025 in Samoa

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.
10 January – Laauli Leuatea Schmidt is dismissed as agriculture and fisheries minister following allegations of misconduct.
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.
23 January – Samoa and China sign a new visa exemption agreement.
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.

8 February – Miss Samoa's Litara Ieremia Allan wins the 2025 Miss Pacific Islands pageant in the Solomon Islands.
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.

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