Proper legal frameworks, particularly when it comes to contracts, is essential for the success of climate finance tools, writes Christopher Burke of WMC Africa. African countries face an urgent ...

The prominent report reveals the majority of countries worldwide saw a drop in their rule of law score, with Sudan and Democratic Republic of the Congo coming bottom of the African jurisdictions ...

The firm has snapped up an accounting specialist who worked on South African anti-money laundering and terrorist financing reforms. Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr has hired Lebogang Makwela as a director in ...

The transaction, which will support sustainable infrastructure projects in sub-Saharan Africa, marks the corporation’s first entry into the Canadian debt capital market. Lagos-headquartered ...

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 ...

After years of review, Nigeria’s Petroleum Industry Act has now been written into law, resulting in positive environmental, social and economic impacts for the Nigerian oil and gas industry. The Act ...

Tameru Wondm Agegnehu, founding partner of the Ethiopian firm of the same name, and Laurence Shore from BonelliErede, consider how Ethiopia will implement the New York Convention, which guarantees the ...

Tumultuous political circumstances have sparked disputes over uranium resources in the West African state, placing French and Canadian nuclear operations in the balance. Niger has entered a tug of war ...

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 ...

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 ...

Africa-focused law firm ASAFO & CO has established a presence in the United States by launching a new office in Washington, DC. ASAFO & CO has launched a new Washington, DC office just as the Biden ...

The law firm said its strategy and priorities had changed following this year’s merger, and that it would continue to offer advice on African matters from its offices in Casablanca, Europe and the ...