Zambia’s Top Opposition Figures Arrested After Presidential Poll

ELS: MBN360 AFRICA Zambia’s post-election tensions have intensified after security forces arrested 11 people, including senior opposition figures, and seized weapons and ammunition in a raid that authorities claim uncovered an alleged plot to overthrow the government by force. The arrests came as the country awaited the final outcome of Thursday’s presidential election, with opposition candidate […]

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TDC defends statutory mandate over Tema development

ELS: MBN360 NEWS TDC Ghana Limited has defended its statutory mandate to plan, lay out and develop the Tema area, saying the mandate predates the establishment of the Tema Metropolitan Assembly, TMA. The TDC Development Company Limited (TDC) was set up in 1952 by an Act of Parliament with the responsibility to plan and develop about 63 […]

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Dome – Kwabenya Road Stalled Because Funding, Fire Sky Engineer Reveals

ELS: MBN360 NEWS Dome-Kwabenya Road In the demonstration by Dome Berekuso residents, the prolonged delay in the Dome Kitase road rehabilitation project has emerged as a major issue affecting motorists and communities along the route. Project Manager at First Sky Construction Ltd, Nicholas Asare Tieku, has disclosed that the project stalled after funding difficulties disrupted the original […]

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No selective justice in legal vacation courts – Srem-Sai

ELS: MBN360 NEWS Deputy Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Justice Srem-Sai, has rejected claims of selective justice over the Chief Justice’s decision to allow some courts to sit during the legal vacation. Justice Srem-Sai described the allegations as “completely false”, saying several judges across the country have been designated as vacation judges and are currently hearing […]

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AKSA Energy deal: Evidence of conspiracy enough to prosecute implicated officials – Ayikoi Otoo

ELS: MBN360 NEWS Former Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Nii Ayikoi Otoo, says evidence showing that public officials participated in a criminal agreement could be sufficient grounds to prosecute them in connection with the alleged bribery scandal involving AKSA Energy. According to him, under Ghanaian law, a person does not necessarily have to be […]

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Press freedom ranking contradicts claims that Ghana’s democracy is under siege – Prof Khalid

ELS: MBN360 NEWS Associate Professor of Accounting and Finance and Economic Adviser to the Vice-President, Professor Sharif Mahmud Khalid, has challenged claims that Ghana’s democracy is currently under siege, arguing that available international indicators do not support such a conclusion. Speaking on JoyNews The Pulse on Saturday, August 8, during a discussion on the New […]

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Beverly Afaglo goes home today.

ELS: MBN360 NEWS Ghanaian actress Beverly Afaglo is being laid to rest today, Saturday, August 8, 2026, as family, friends, colleagues, and fans gather to pay their final respects to the actress. A funeral service is being held at the Forecourt of the State House in Accra, beginning at 7:00 a.m. She will subsequently be […]

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UN Highlights Indigenous Youth Using Culture to Defend Lands and Confront Climate Change

ELS: MBN360 Around the Globe United Nations has highlighted how a new generation of Indigenous leaders in Brazil is turning to culture, creativity and digital platforms to defend ancestral territories and confront the growing effects of climate change. Across Brazil’s Indigenous communities, rising temperatures, prolonged droughts, devastating wildfires, disappearing food sources and the accelerating loss […]

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South African clothing factories struggle after migrant workers flee

ELS: MBN360 AFRICA NEWS Weeks after xenophobic protests drove thousands of migrant workers from South ​Africa, rows of sewing machines stood idle at a clothing factory in Newcastle, a manufacturing hub in the eastern province of KwaZulu-Natal. The campaign ‌led by anti-immigrant group March and March sought to free up jobs for South Africans, a third of whom […]

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