 Moving on to stories outside Africa, Samoa has its first female prime minister after a three-month electoral deadlock was broken by the courts. The Pacific nation went to the polls on April 9th with the FASD party claiming victory over the Human Rights Protection Party. On Friday, the country's Court of Appeal ruled that the swearing-in of the FASD party was legally valid. The party held its own swearing-in ceremony on the parliament's lawns after members were locked out of the building. The wince is the change of the first change of government since 1982 and installs Fiamme Naomi Matafa as Premier.