Absa CIB’s Vinesh Kassen explores the rapid growth in the Middle East-Africa trade corridor, where food security and infrastructure investment are but two new opportunities for sustainable growth.

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.

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 ...

Lawyers in the UK have drawn attention to the mistreatment and persecution of lawyers in Egypt, as part of a UN review of the country’s human rights situation.

Women remain underrepresented and face discrimination in the South African legal profession, according to a new report. Discrimination, sexual harassment, attitudes to motherhood, work-life balance, ...

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 ...

With the takeover of LawExplorer, the Africa-focused legal intelligence provider aims to scale up its services and tackle the continent’s disjointed regulatory landscape. Legal intelligence company ...

A study by the International Bar Association has highlighted problematic gender disparities across the country’s senior legal roles. Women are underrepresented in the top positions across three out of ...

Following in the footsteps of the EU’s GDPR, Uganda’s Data Protection Act 2019 aims to establish a modern data privacy law. Aissatou Sylla of Hogan Lovells and Alice Namuli Blazevic of Katende, ...

A decision by Uganda’s Commercial Court has given foreign companies the right to operate without being incorporated or registered there, causing confusion over the legal precedent and raising concerns ...

The firm has snapped up a White & Case lawyer for its Johannesburg office. Webber Wentzel has hired banking and finance lawyer Olwethu Gusha as a partner in its banking and finance practice. The firm ...

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 ...