Articles by Kwame Mensah
Shut-Down For 50th Anniversary of Biafra Declaration
Shops, schools and businesses were shut in southeast Nigeria on Tuesday, 50 years to the day since an independent...
First Japanese To Report Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Dies At 86
Yoshie Oka, the first person to raise the alarm outside Hiroshima that the Japanese city had been hit by an atomic...
S.Sudan Troops Tried For Rape, Murder In Juba Compound Attack
A South Sudan military court on Tuesday opened the trial of 13 soldiers accused of raping foreign aid workers and...
Daughter of S. Korea’s ‘Rasputin’ Set To Return Home From Denmark
The daughter of the woman at the centre of a corruption scandal that led to the ousting of South Korea's president will...
Chess-Playing Robot Star of Taiwan Tech Fair
A chess-playing robot stole the show as Asia's largest tech fair kicked off in Taiwan Tuesday with artificial...
Baghdad Car Bomb Kills At Least Five
A car bomb exploded near one of Baghdad's main bridges on Tuesday, killing at least five people, security and medical...
China ‘ping-Pong Prince’ Suspended Over Casino Suit
One of China's best known table tennis champions has been suspended as head coach of the national women's team,...
Sri Lanka Appeals For Help As Floods Cripple Water Supply
Sri Lanka appealed for volunteers Tuesday to help with a massive recovery operation in the wake of devastating flooding...
Indonesian Islamist Leader Named Suspect In Porn Case
A Indonesian Islamist leader who helped organise mass protests against Jakarta's Christian governor has been named a...
Women Accused of Kim Jong-Nam Murder Appear In Court
An Indonesian and a Vietnamese woman accused of assassinating the half-brother of North Korea's leader with a deadly...
Philippines Urges Islamist Militants To Surrender
Philippine authorities on Tuesday urged Islamist militants occupying parts of a southern city to surrender for the sake...
N. Korea Says Ballistic Missile Test Successful
North Korea on Tuesday boasted its test of a precision-guided missile was "successful", saying it had zeroed in within...
UK Journalist Faces Thai Jail For Carrying Protective Gear
A British journalist faces jail time after he was arrested at Thailand's main airport with a gas mask and plates for a...
China To Launch Cybersecurity Law Despite Concerns
China will implement a controversial cybersecurity law Thursday despite concerns from foreign firms worried about its...
‘Dinosaur’ Philippine Jeepneys Face Uncertain Future
Peter Dallos shouts above the rumble of his smoke-belching engine urging passengers to clamber quickly on to his...
Fear, Confusion As Philippine Muslim City Burns
Four hungry chickens clawed at rubbish in a deserted street that smelt of corpses as military helicopters skimmed the...
Trying To Help Egypt’s Street Kids
Barefoot and wearing shabby clothes, the two-year-old wanders through the dirty streets of Cairo alongside her mother,...
Australia To Strip Convicted Paedophiles of Passports
Convicted paedophiles will have their passports cancelled to prevent them travelling overseas to offend again under...
In Swedish Asylum Limbo, Young Afghans Turn To Heroin
Beer cans, newspapers drenched in vomit and aluminium foil litters the ground inside a parking garage where young...
Hundreds of Thousands Evacuated As Cyclone Hits Bangladesh
Cyclone Mora hit Bangladesh Tuesday packing winds of up to 117 kilometres per hour (73mph) after authorities evacuated...