South African liquidators Cloete and Thomas Murray were murdered just as they had started to unearth evidence that siblings Rushil and Nishani Singh – with whom they spent their final hours – had allegedly built a multi-million dollar empire in Ghana on ... Read More
A Botswana Cabinet Minister says former President Ian Khama can't approach the courts because he's a fugitive. Khama is trying to install his cousin, Peter Khama, as the chief of the tribe he's headed since 1979. He ... Read More
Chad's state election body has confirmed that interim President Mahamat Idriss Deby had won the 6 May presidential election outright with over 61% of the vote, citing provisional results, even as his main challenger declared himself the winner. The ... Read More
Ghana's Supreme Court say lawyers battling over the legality of one of Africa's most restrictive anti-LGBTQ Bills must amend their motions due to insulting language in their submissions before resuming the case. Parliament in February unanimously passed the ... Read More
One of Britain’s top hedge fund managers lost a legal fight over the salvage of $40m of silver from the wreck of a ship sunk by a Japanese submarine in World War II, reports News24. The UK’s Supreme Court last week declared ... Read More
The CEO of global cryptocurrency exchange platform Binance has expressed deep concern over the Nigerian Government's decision to detain one of its employees. Two Binance executives Nadeem Anjarwalla and Tigran Gambaryan were arrested while negotiating with Nigerian authorities amid ... Read More
Consultations between Pretoria and the EU on the financially debilitating phytosanitary trade regulations imposed on SA citrus are set to take place before the World Trade Organisation (WTO). SA has declared a second dispute before the WTO after its citrus ... Read More
Kenya Airways resumed its flights to Kinshasa on Wednesday following the release of its detained staff by the Congolese military on Monday. The national carrier announced that the decision follows the ‘unconditional' release of two of its employees who had ... Read More
Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi has vowed to protect the country’s interests, including its 15% stake in giant De Beers, should BHP Group acquire Anglo American. Anglo, which rejected a BHP proposal valuing the mining company at about $39bn, owns the ... Read More
TotalEnergies and the South African Government have decided to oppose a bid by environmental groups Natural Justice and The Green Connection to set aside the government’s decision to grant it the right to drill offshore for gas and oil. A ... Read More
A Bill seeking to impose a death penalty on people convicted of drug trafficking has been passed for the third reading in Nigeria's senate. The proposed capital punishment, which is not yet law, replaces life imprisonment, which was previously ... Read More
The FW de Klerk Foundation has expressed deep concern over the signing of the Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill into law. The new Act provides for the prevention of hate crimes and hate speech, effective ... Read More
The African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) has made strides in boosting exports from eligible African countries to the US. Between 2001 and 2021, the annual value of US imports from Agoa-eligible countries nearly tripled, from $8.15bn to $21 ... Read More
Sometimes complex litigation can mask a powerful human tragedy. The case of Argentum Exploration against SA is just such a tale. Behind arcane argument in the UK courts about whether SA was obliged to pay salvage costs to Argentum for ... Read More
13: Kenyan President William Ruto has ordered the re-opening of all schools today. This is after he postponed the second term reopening until further notice due to the prevailing dire weather conditions. Infrastructures, including classrooms, dormitories, halls, toilets, latrines ... Read More
PERSPECTIVES ON SECURITIES MARKETS AND THE LAW IN ZAMBIA C Mulenga Publisher: Juta Perspectives on Securities Markets and the Law in Zambia provides a thorough understanding of Zambia's securities market operations, regulatory framework and traded instruments. Through a comparative analysis ... Read More
‘I think that the language is intemperate, a lot of the paragraphs contain language that is inappropriate, scandalous, so I want to give you directions.’ – Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo, addressing Ghana's Supreme Court. She said lawyers ... Read More
The continent is too large to describe. It is a veritable ocean, a separate planet, a varied immensely rich cosmos. Only with the greatest simplification, for the sake of convenience, can we say ‘Africa’. In reality, except as a geographical ... Read More
Frelimo is tipped to win Mozambique's upcoming elections, retaining the power it has held since independence. It is fielding the country's first likely President who was not a guerrilla fighter. Daniel Chapo, born two years after Mozambique ... Read More
Widely believed to be the ‘cradle of humankind,’ Africa is the only continent with fossil evidence of human beings (Homo sapiens) and their ancestors through each key stage of their evolution. These include the Australopithecines, our earliest ancestors ... Read More
