Articles by Kwame Mensah
Pakistan Economy Grows At Highest Rate In Decade
Confidence in Pakistan is growing, but economists believe the country will need to register sustained growth of six to...
Indian Woman Forced To Marry Pakistani Returns Home
An Indian woman who said she was forced to marry a Pakistani at gunpoint returned to India on Thursday after a court...
Suspected Jihadists Wreck Mali Primary School
Suspected Islamic extremists have wrecked a primary school in central Mali out of hostility to Western-style education,...
‘Panic’ In Bangladesh Factories As Workers Collapse In Heatwave
Panic broke out in more than a dozen factories in Bangladesh's capital as hundreds of garment workers fell ill in a...
Sisi’s Egypt Cracks Down On News Websites
Egypt's government, already accused of muzzling freedom of expression and opposition to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi,...
Myanmar To Deport Turkish Family Amid Crackdown Fears
Myanmar authorities have detained a Turkish family and are trying to deport them to Turkey, where activists fear they...
Funding Shortfall Hits Starving In NE Nigeria
Lack of funding is forcing aid agencies to cut feeding programmes for starving people in northeast Nigeria, the UN said...
‘Afghan Spielberg’ Shaheen Goes Down A Storm At Cannes
In the hierarchy of world cinema, Hollywood is at the top. Then comes Bollywood and Nigeria's Nollywood. And then "way,...
Father of Manchester Bomb Suspect ‘was In Militant Group’
The father of suspected Manchester suicide bomber Salman Abedi was once part of a Libyan militant group with alleged...
Iran Says It Has Built Third Underground Missile Factory
Iran has built a third underground plant to manufacture ballistic missiles, the head of its Revolutionary Guards...
Five Kenyan Police Killed In New Bombing
Five police officers were killed Thursday when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in northeastern Kenya, a day after two...
Bangladesh Jails High-Profile Islamist Leader
A Bangladesh court Thursday jailed a senior Islamist militant for more than seven years for leading an extremist group...
Obama ‘heartbroken’ By Manchester Attack
Former United States President Barack Obama said at a Berlin reunion with German Chancellor Angela Merkel Thursday he...
Afghan Plane Forced To Fly Back After Angry MPs Miss Flight
Supporters of two Afghan MPs who missed a domestic flight from Kabul blocked an airport runway with rocks, forcing the...
Zambia Considers Moving Capital To Rural Area
Zambia is considering a proposal to move its capital from fast-developing Lusaka to a nearly uninhabited marshland...
Everest Rescuers Retrieve Bodies of Two Indian Climbers
Rescuers have retrieved the bodies of two Indian climbers who died on Mount Everest last year but whose remains could...
EU’s Tusk Says No ‘common Position’ On Russia With Trump
European Union president Donald Tusk said talks with US President Donald Trump on Thursday revealed no "common...
Qatar Faces Hostile Campaign, Particularly In US
Qatar has been targeted by a hostile campaign, particularly in the US media, its foreign minister said, a day after the...
Vietnam Man Kills Wedding Guest After Karaoke Row
A man at a wedding in southern Vietnam murdered a fellow guest and seriously injured another after he was booed off...
New Zealand Cricketer Blames Drink-Driving On Pet Parrot’d Death
New Zealand fast bowler Doug Bracewell was sentenced to 100 hours of community service on Thursday after pleading...