The organisation has added the former head of the South Africa Takeover Regulation Panel to its leadership. The Arbitration Foundation of Southern Africa (AFSA) has appointed Andile Nikani as its ...

The divisive Bill has now been signed into law, but various political parties have slammed the law for being unconstitutional and enforcing expropriation without compensation. South Africa president ...

The alliance has bid farewell to Dr Cheick Modibo Diarra, and welcomed a chair with over 30 years of experience across the African legal and business spheres. The Africa Legal Network (ALN) has ...

A regulatory body in Côte d’Ivoire has been relaunched, paving the way for more effective oversight of the public procurement process. Côte d’Ivoire has rebadged an existing regulatory body as it ...

The move follows the London-headquartered firm’s exit from the South African legal sector. ALN Tanzania has hired former Hogan Lovells South Africa managing partner Chris Green as a partner. The firm ...

A transactional lawyer with near two decades’ practice has left a local firm to join Herbert Smith Freehills in Johannesburg, adding high-level experience in cross-border, private equity and Black ...

The deal expands the UAE mining company’s copper extraction capabilities in the North African state. Purple Hedge Resources Morocco, a subsidiary of United Arab Emirates mining group Purple Hedge DWC, ...

Regime change can bring about changes for foreign investors. Jasmine Curtoni of King & Spalding considers the measures through which those investors can protect their investments. In 2024, half the ...

The firm has snapped up an executive with 16 years of experience across local and international IP work. ENS has grown its commercial IP practice with the addition of executive Craig Shapiro, one of ...

The African state has been rewarded with USD 53 million for joining forces with the US to fight oil industry corruption. The investigation by the DoJ Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative exposed a ...

Canadian company Barrick Gold has filed an ICSID request for arbitration, as the Malian government seeks a greater share of mining proceeds under a 2023 law. Toronto-headquartered listed mining ...

The country has passed new laws to fight money laundering, terrorist financing and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Rwanda has passed new legislation to strengthen its anti-financial ...