With the African Continental Free Trade Area now in force, the EAIAC held a webinar to discuss AfCFTA’s implementation, the opportunities it will pose for intra-Africa trade and the legal sector, and ...

Recent research conducted by Saudi Arabian investment company Arab Petroleum Investments Corporation has identified the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) as a region of focus for energy investments ...

Benin has been one of Africa’s front-runners when it comes to data protection law. Aissatou Sylla of Hogan Lovells and Etienne-Marie Fifatin and Marieannick Ouendo of the country’s data protection ...

What is the potential of Nigeria’s oil and gas industry under a proposed new law? Hamish McArdle and Tom Edwards of Baker Botts consider the possibilities. Nigeria’s long awaited restructuring of its ...

The energy company has entered into an agreement with a Nigerian power producer to provide renewable energy to two manufacturing sites. London-headquartered energy company Konexa has signed an ...

Online automotive marketplace Sylndr has concluded its Series A funding round, involving notable international and Africa-focused law firms. Egyptian trading platform Sylndr has closed its Series A ...

Rising demand in the Sub-Saharan infrastructure market has led Pinsent Masons to hire two lawyers with experience of energy deals across the OHADA region. Pinsent Masons has hired a pair of ...

The French mining company has filed proceedings at ICSID as its financial situation spirals over a uranium mining dispute. French mining company Orano has filed for arbitration against Niger over its ...

The West African country’s central bank has collaborated with a national financial regulator in publishing a guide to best practice in the foreign exchange bureau sector to combat money-laundering, ...

Charles Russell Speechlys partners Thomas Snider and Adrian Mayer explore the Middle Eastern country’s increasingly close relationship with the African continent amid rising levels of private ...

Kwadwo Sarkodie and Thomas Ajose of Mayer Brown look at the pros and cons of the Economic Partnership Agreement between Kenya and the UK. On the 10 March 2021, after a late night session in parliament ...

Aissatou Sylla of Hogan Lovells and José Maria de Pina of Cape Verde’s data protection authority comment on the new amendment to the country’s Data Protection Act. The Republic of Cape Verde has ...