The Court of Appeal in London has refused a bid to appeal against a judgment which set aside one of Nigeria’s most notorious multibillion-dollar arbitral awards. Nigeria prevailed in the Court of ...

The West African state has brought a number of assets under the ownership of a government vehicle, as it seeks a higher ownership share of gold mining projects. Burkina Faso has transferred five of ...

London International Disputes Week featured two London High Court judges on an Africa and an AI-focused panel, while solicitors and risk professionals discussed successful exit strategies from the ...

Christopher Burke, a senior adviser at WMC Africa, explores how greater IP recognition can help young people enter the formal economy. A 23-year-old fashion designer sells hand-printed t-shirts with ...

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 ...

The North African country has updated its labour legislation for the first time in 22 years, aligning the state with international standards. Egypt has passed new labour legislation to update its ...

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 ...

Lagos-headquartered UUBO has increased its partner count by rehiring two transactional and regulatory practitioners with over a decade’s prior experience at the firm. Nigerian law firm Udo Udoma & ...

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 state’s trade policies will be updated over the coming months by a nine-member committee. The Nigerian administration has begun a review of its Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs). The process ...

Six former employees of the scandal-hit mining titan have been slapped with bribery charges relating to various oil deals and operations in West Africa. The fallout over Glencore’s widespread bribery ...

An African energy company has agreed to receive multimillion-dollar debt funding from a B Corp-accredited investor, to fund company expansion and accelerate the replacement of fossil-fuel ...