The Italian energy company has signed a new agreement with the West African nation, settling the notorious OPL 245 claim which dates back to a 1998 contract.

The Paris-based law firm has nabbed three lawyers from DS Avocats as it opens its second office in Africa, with the launch of a new arm in the Senegalese capital.

The institution has provided a EUR 120 million partial credit guarantee to construction company Mota-Engil Africa – one of the bank’s first direct support deals to a non-sovereign borrower in the ...

What is the potential of Nigeria’s oil and gas industry under a proposed new law? Hamish McArdle and Tom Edwards of Baker Botts consider the possibilities. Nigeria’s long awaited restructuring of its ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. The Republic of Cape Verde has ...

The West African country’s central bank has collaborated with a national financial regulator in publishing a guide to best practice in the foreign exchange bureau sector to combat money-laundering, ...

Silver Kayondo of Ortus Advocates in Uganda gives a legal and regulatory update for technology companies operating in East Africa for 2025 and beyond. The East African region, notably in Uganda, Kenya ...

Herbert Smith Freehills lawyers Silke Goldberg and Ernst Müller, and trainee Ntandokazi Shazi highlight the gathering global momentum of climate change litigation, in the wake of a recent judicial ...

International law firms’ many and various attempts to get into African markets have found mixed fortunes, while the continent’s own firms have grown in strength and skill. So can the foreigners ...

A Swiss company alleges the Kenyan government has expropriated its border control technology. Swiss technology company Travizory, headquartered in Neuchâtel, filed an investor-state arbitration claim ...