Articles by Kwame Mensah
Abducted Priest Seen Alive As Islamists Hold Out In Philippines
A Roman Catholic priest abducted by Islamist militants who seized parts of a southern Philippine city has been seen...
China Landslide Rescuers Ordered To Evacuate
Rescuers searching for more than 90 people missing following a huge landslide in southwest China were ordered to...
Ranks of Homeless Veterans Keep Swelling In Los Angeles
Kendrick Bailey is standing outside the tent he has pitched on a filthy sidewalk in downtown Los Angeles and points to...
Pakistan Marks Grim Eid After Oil Tanker Inferno Kills 153
Pakistan began Eid in mourning Monday as the death toll in an oil tanker explosion rose to 153, with scores injured...
Chinese Court Convicts Australians In Crown Gambling Case
Nineteen current and former employees of Australia's Crown Resorts company pleaded guilty to gambling-related charges...
S. Korea’s Moon Heads To US As North Threat Grows
South Korea's dovish new President Moon Jae-In -- who backs engagement with the nuclear-armed North -- heads to...
Afghan Subculture of Child Sex Slavery
AFP has traced three former victims of "bacha bazi", or the sexual exploitation of boys, whose testimonies lay bare one...
Jeff Horn Has ’10-Point Plan’ To Upset Pacquiao
Australian challenger Jeff Horn has a 10-point plan to upset legendary Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao in their World...
Life After Sexual Slavery In Afghanistan
Adorned in makeup, fake breasts and bells, Jawed whirls around middle-aged men at Kabul's underground bacha bazi, or...
All Blacks Coach Hansen Blasts Gatland As ‘a Bit Desperate’
All Blacks coach Steve Hansen lit the fuse on simmering tension with rival Warren Gatland Monday, labelling the British...
Anger In Nepal’s South Threatens Landmark Polls
Ganesh Yadav was shot by police during deadly protests that roiled southern Nepal in 2015, but he is ready to return to...
Australia’s Crown Resorts Staff Face Trial In China
A Chinese court opened a trial on Monday for 19 current and former employees of Australia's Crown Resorts company who...
Myanmar and Thailand Torch $1 Billion of Seized Drugs
Myanmar and Thailand started torching nearly $1 billion worth of seized narcotics on Monday, a defiant show of force as...
China’s Hydropower Frenzy Drowns Sacred Mountains
Towering walls of concrete entomb lush forests on mountainsides in southwest China as workers toil on the dry riverbed...
N.Korea Doubts Over South’s Olympic Invite
A top North Korean sports official voiced doubts over a proposal by South Korean President Moon Jae-In to form a...
Erdogan’s Istanbul Opera House Plan Sparks Excitement, Controversy
On the buzzing Taksim Square of Istanbul, the focal point of the modern city, a giant disused building looms over...
Epic Struggle of Film About Cairo On Eve of Revolution
Everyone thought Tamer El Said had gone mad in the decade it took him to make his film "In the Last Days of the City"....
South Korea’s Ryu Moves To No. 1 With LPGA Arkansas Win
Ryu So-Yeon seized the world number one ranking on Sunday as she closed with a two-under 69 at the Northwest Arkansas...
Great Barrier Reef A $42 Billion Asset ‘too Big To Fail’
Australia's under-pressure Great Barrier Reef is an asset worth Aus$56 billion (US$42 billion) and as an ecosystem and...
Successful SpaceX Launch Delivers Satellites Into Orbit
The American company SpaceX on Sunday successfully placed 10 satellites for the communications company Iridium into...