Articles by Kwame Mensah
Suicide Bomber Targets Popular Mogadishu Restaurant
Casualties were feared on Wednesday evening after a suicide car bomber targeted a popular restaurant in the Somali...
Shooter Kills Three and Self At San Francisco UPS Facility
A gunman killed three people and wounded two at a San Francisco warehouse facility operated by UPS before turning the...
Shooter of Republicans Was Sanders Fan, Had Run-Ins With Law
James T. Hodgkinson, the rifle-toting 66-year-old who opened fire on a Republican lawmakers practicing for a baseball...
US Fed Raises Key Interest Rate To 1.0-1.25%, Signals One More Hike
The US Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by a quarter point to 1.0-1.25% on Wednesday and signaled...
Morocco Jails 25 Protesters Over Rif Protests
A court in Morocco on Wednesday sentenced 25 demonstrators and suspected members of a grassroots protest movement to 18...
Police Arrest Three Relatives Over Unsolved Murder of ‘Little Gregory’
French police investigating the killing of a four-year-old boy in 1984 arrested three of his relatives on Wednesday,...
World Bank To Give Afghanistan $520 Mn Credit
The World Bank on Tuesday said it had approved a $520 million plan to help Afghanistan, which has been weakened by the...
Trump To Roll Back Some of Obama’s Cuban Outreach
US President Donald Trump has vowed to revisit all of his predecessor's diplomatic successes and failures, but is he...
Warriors, Cavaliers Working On Fourth NBA Finals In A Row
Stephen Curry was still smiling and laughing about Golden State's second NBA title in three seasons when he made it...
Siblings Accuse Singapore PM of Abusing Power In Family Row
A feud between the children of Singapore's late founding leader intensified Wednesday after two siblings publicly...
Pyongyang’s ‘traffic Ladies’
Snapping their heads from side to side, marching into the roads in close-fitting blue uniforms and black heels, the...
Bangladesh Rescuers Battle To Reach Landslide Victims
Rescue workers were Wednesday battling to reach remote areas of Bangladesh hit by landslides and heavy rains that have...
All Blacks Eye Samoa ‘battle’ To Fine-Tune For Lions
The All Blacks are expecting a tough battle against Samoa on Friday as they fine-tune their game ahead of the...
In Africa’s Fashion Capital, Lagos, ‘trad Is Swag’
Leggy dancers in tight shorts, bottles of Moet champagne and flashy cars feature in Nigerian pop icon Wizkid's...
Indonesia Seizes Pangolins, Scales Worth $190,000
Indonesian authorities have seized hundreds of critically endangered pangolins and scales in a haul worth $190,000...
Asylum-Seekers In Australia Win Multimillion Dollar Payout
Detainees at a controversial Australian asylum-seeker camp in Papua New Guinea won Aus$70 million ($53 million) in...
Danger, Extortion, Suffering On Migrant Route To Europe
Extortion, corruption and fear; violence, hunger and sometimes even death: for west African migrants dreaming of...
Villagers Fear S.Sudan Famine
South Sudan's northwest is untouched by civil war, yet hunger still wreaks havoc: here food shortages are cyclical and...
Chinese Billionaire Steps Aside Amid Detention Report
The chairman of a Chinese insurance group that sought a business deal with the family of US President Donald Trump's...
Crackdown Takes Toll On Niger Smuggling Hub
With tens of thousands of migrants flooding into the desert city of Agadez en route to Europe, Africa's smuggling...