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Samoa s first female PM to review costly China-backed projects ANI | Updated: Jul 29, 2021 05:55 IST
Apia [Samoa], July 29 (ANI): Fiame Naomi Mata afa, who has assumed office as Samoa s first female prime minister, is likely to review China-funded infrastructure development projects as they have increased the country s debt.
Mata afa plans to scrap a 100 million dollars port development project backed by Beijing, reported Nikkei Asia citing Reuters.
She is the first female Prime Minister of the country, ending months of post-election wrangling with the country s first transition of power in 23 years.
Fiame s Fa atuatua i le Atua Samoa ua Tasi party and Tuilaepa s Human Rights Protection Party each won 25 seats in the 51-seat legislature in the general election in April. The sole independent threw his support behind FAST, giving the party a one-seat majority, but Tuilaepa, who has been in office since 1998, refused to cede power.