Under a peace agreement signed in Addis Ababa on 23 January, the government and dissident elements of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army have committed to ceasing “all military actions”, to “freeze their forces at the place they are in”...
This year’s elections in South Africa, 20 years after the first all-race elections in 1994, offer an opportunity to reconfigure the country’s politics after two decades of African National Congress (ANC) rule. This will be the first election in...
Soma Oil & Gas, led by former UK Conservative party leader Michael Howard, has secured an equity investment of $50m from British Virgin Islands-registered private investment company Winter Sky. Soma has an agreement with the Somali Federal...
National Assembly chairman Aubin Minaku on 22 January ordered the suspension of debate on Democratic Republic of Congo’s new oil law, which was approved by the Senate last year. There is still a long way to go, as only 20 articles have been...
Zesco has drawn up plans to spend some $5bn over the next five years to expand its generation, transmission and distribution infrastructure and is now looking at ways to raise funds. But donor concerns are being raised about the sustainability...
London’s High Court is preparing for a high-profile case due to start in February, involving two Saudi royals: businessman and Allegiance Commission chairman Mishaal Bin Abdelaziz and his son Abdelaziz (Apex Global Management Ltd v FI Call Ltd,...
In late December, Al-Khobar-based Soroof International said it would file a complaint in the Saudi criminal court against Electricité de France International (EDF) for remedies against the offences and harms caused to Soroof and its owner, Prince...
As Kuwait’s anti-corruption authority takes shape (see main story), in Qatar, the Administrative Control and Transparency Authority (ACTA), set up in late 2011 by emiri decree, is not as advanced. Qatar’s well-known former energy minister...
The UK-based law firm Addleshaw Goddard is to represent Saudi property developer Dar Al-Arkan and Bahrain’s Bank Alkhair (previously known as Unicorn Investment Bank) in a $1bn conspiracy case against several defendants: the bank’s former chief...
An Oman court has sentenced three men – a government official and two senior businessmen – to jail on corruption charges. The government official was also banned from public office for 20 years, following a trial which has exposed the payment of...
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