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.

27296 Articles Joined March 2026

Articles by Kwame Mensah

International

Trump Slams Mexico As Leader Cancels Trip

Donald Trump has hit out at Mexico after its president announced he had cancelled next week's trip to the US. The US...

International

Turkish Anger As Greece Rejects Extradition of Eight Soldiers

Turkey has reacted with anger after a Greek court ruled against extraditing eight Turkish soldiers accused of...

International

Prices For Singapore’s Private Homes Down 0.5 Pct In Q4 2016

Prices for Singapore's private homes dropped in the fourth quarter of 2016, with the private residential property index...

Politics

Adama Barrow Reaches The Gambia

Gambian President Adama Barrow has finally returned home a week after being sworn in as Yahya Jammeh’s successor. The...

Politics

ACCA Holds First Virtual Career & Job Fair

Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) Ghana will this Friday 27th January, 2017 hold Ghana’s first...

International

Scarlett Johansson and Husband Split After Two Years of Marriage

Scarlett Johansson and her husband, Romain Dauriac, have split, a source with knowledge of the matter tells CNN....

Politics

Gov’t Kick-Starts National ID Project

Government has begun the process of implementing a comprehensive national identification project, in fulfillment of a...

Politics

Ghana Health Service Dismisses Reports of CHRAJ Investigation of Former Director

The Ghana Health Service has dismissed reports of stolen vehicles in its Upper East Regional Directorate. According to...

Politics

Govt Doubles Royalties To Mining Communities

The government of Ghana has announced plans to reduce its share of the mining royalties from 80 percent to 70 percent,...

International

Mexican President Cancels Trump Summit

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has cancelled next week's trip to Washington to meet US President Donald Trump....

Opinion

Sudan Opposition Leader Mahdi Returns From Exile

Khartoum (AFP) - Sudanese opposition leader and ex-prime minister Sadiq al-Mahdi returned to the country on Thursday...

Opinion

Nigeria Casts Its First Social Safety Net

Lagos (AFP) - Nearly two years after taking office, Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari is making good on an election...

Politics

Veterinaries Worried About Rate At Which Donkeys Are Killed

Ghanaian veterinary officers are unhappy with the failure of some countries within the West African sub-region to...

Politics

Stars Travel To Oyem For Sunday’s Quarter-Finals With DR Congo

The Black Stars will leave their Port-Gentil base Thursday evening for Gabon’s northern city of Oyem, where they will...

International

Nigerian Author Who Championed Girls Dies Aged 72

Nigerian author Buchi Emecheta, whose works included The Joys of Motherhood, Second-Class Citizen and The Bride Price,...

Politics

BEIGE’s Mike Nyinaku Adjudged The Most Influential Young Ghanaian Business Leader

The Chief Executive Officer of The BEIGE Group (TBG), Mike Nyinaku, has been adjudged The Most Influential Young...

International

If You Won’t Pay For Wall, Visit’s Off

Donald Trump hasn't even been president for a week and already the US-Mexico battle over a border wall is turning red...

International

Tiffany Trump On Voter Rolls In 2 States, Despite Claims Otherwise By Kellyanne Conway

Just one day after President Donald Trump said he would ask for a "major investigation" into his unsubstantiated...

Politics

Jamaica Considering Appeal After Bolt Loses Olympic Gold

Jamaica may appeal against the decision to strip the rest of its Beijing 4x100m relay squad of their gold medals after...

International

Gambia’s New President Adama Barrow To Return Home

Gambia's new President, Adama Barrow, says he will return to the country on Thursday to assume power - days after his...