Kwame Mensah

Kwame Mensah is a senior political correspondent based in Accra. With over a decade of experience covering Ghana's Parliament, elections, and government policy, he brings sharp analysis and deep sourcing to GhanaStar's political coverage. A graduate of the University of Ghana's School of Communication Studies, Kwame has previously reported for the Daily Graphic and Joy FM. He specializes in governance, public accountability, and West African geopolitics.

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Trump To Nominate Callista Gingrich As Vatican Envoy

President Donald Trump is set to nominate Callista Gingrich, wife of former House speaker Newt Gingrich, to be the next...

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Ashes Strike Warning Over Australia Pay Row

Australia's cricketers union urged a swift resolution to a damaging pay dispute on Monday to avoid any strike...

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Philippine Lawmakers Reject Duterte’s Impeachment

Philippine lawmakers on Monday rejected an impeachment complaint against President Rodrigo Duterte that accused him of...

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Emergency In Sanaa As Cholera Kills Scores

A state of emergency has been declared in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, after an outbreak of cholera killed scores of...

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Syria Regime Nears Total Recapture of Damascus

Syria's regime is close to cementing its control over the entire capital under local deals with rebels after a six-year...

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Seventeen Killed In Mass Prison Break In Papua New Guinea

The prison in Lae, Papua New Guinea, has seen repeated similar escapades over the years Prison guards have shot dead 17...

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AirAsia To Launch China Joint Venture

Budget airline AirAsia has signed a joint venture agreement to set up a new low-cost carrier in China. It wants to tap...

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Ben Stokes Missing For IPL Playoffs After England Recall

Rising Pune Supergiant will head into this week's Indian Premier League play-offs without star all-rounder Ben Stokes...

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India In Appeal To UN Court To Halt Execution of ‘spy’

India was to appeal to the UN's top court on Monday to order Pakistan to suspend its planned execution of an Indian...

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Foreigners Barred From Singapore Gay-Pride Rally

Foreigners will be barred from attending Singapore's annual gay-pride rally, its organisers said, as the city-state...

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Syrian Refugee Kids In Lebanon Act, Direct, ‘escape’

"Three, two, one, action!" shouts Syrian refugee Mostafa Abdallah, 11, energetically directing his fellow child actors...

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EU Pushes Myanmar For Aid Access In Northern Rakhine

A senior European Union official has urged Myanmar to allow full aid access to the north of Rakhine state, where...

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Australia Police Thought Dismembered Body ‘a Prank’

Police who found a dismembered body being cooked on a stovetop in an Australian apartment thought they had stumbled on...

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Hong Kong ‘Snowden Refugees’ Face Deportation

A group of refugees who sheltered fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden in Hong Kong are facing deportation after the...

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Ransomware Hits ‘hundreds of Thousands’ of China PCs

"Hundreds of thousands" of Chinese computers at nearly 30,000 institutions including government agencies have been hit...

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Lyft, Waymo To Cooperate On Self-Driving Cars

Waymo, the self-driving car unit of Google parent Alphabet, has reached an agreement with ridesharer Lyft to test...

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Malaysia Seizes Smuggled Tortoises Worth $300,000

Malaysian customs foiled an attempt to smuggle hundreds of the world's most endangered tortoises into the country from...

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Yemen Declares State of Emergency Over Cholera Outbreak

Authorities in Sanaa, which is controlled by Shiite rebels, have declared a state of emergency in the Yemeni capital,...

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Ritchie Strikes Again As Ducks Even NHL West Conference Series

Nick Ritchie scored the eventual winning goal as the Anaheim Ducks defeated the Nashville Predators 5-3 on Sunday to...

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Indonesians Arrested Over Sumatran Tiger Poaching

Indonesian authorities have arrested two men on suspicion of poaching Sumatran tigers and seized a skin and bones taken...