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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 Canadian uranium company has filed a dispute against the African state regarding its mining operations in the region. The companies are pursuing ICSID proceedings under the arbitration clause of ...

The US technology company has refuted allegations that it is complicit in the unethical supply of minerals in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Lawyers representing the Democratic Republic of Congo ...

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 ...