# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sam-abal
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:55:45.102Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sam-abal"
name: "Sam Abal"
slug: "sam-abal"
description: "Samuel Tei Abal is a Papua New Guinean politician. Abal, who previously served as Foreign Minister from August 2007 to December 2010, became the Deputy Prime Minister of the country in a cabinet reshuffle by Michael Somare on 7 December 2010. He further became acting Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea on 13 December 2010, when Prime Minister Somare stepped down from office to face a tribunal regarding allegations of financial mismanagement. His tenure as acting Prime Minister ended on 2 August 2011, when Peter O'Neill won a parliamentary vote to be appointed as Prime Minister. Since October 2021, he is the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Papua New Guinea to Japan."
tagline: "Papua New Guinean politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mr._Samuel_T._Abal_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1958-06-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.74
  momentum:             24.04576793310841
  historical:           7.889490666666666
  currentAttention:     0.28
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Sam Abal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Abal"
    title: "Sam Abal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Abal"
    title: "Sam Abal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Abal"
    title: "Sam Abal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Abal"
    title: "Sam Abal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Abal"
    title: "Sam Abal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Abal"
    title: "Samuel Abal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Abal"
    title: "Sam Abal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%BB%2C_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%83%D1%8D%D0%BB%D1%8C"
    title: "Абал, Самуэль"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q58169"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump