RiA Recht in Afrika | Law in Africa | Droit en Afrique

This paper makes an assessment of how far the African Union (AU) has gone in exercising the mandate of use of force as one of tools for upholding democracy and constitutionalism within the continent. The key intention of this assessment is to...

The African Union (AU), which succeeded the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in 2002, is based on a strong legal and institutional framework that reinforces constitutionalism at national, regional and continental levels. This framework is a...

The legal framework of the Congolese exchange rate regulation has the advantage of taking into account the policy of de-dollarization of the economy by imposing payments of transactions between residents, the rights due to the State, to...

The jurisdictional protection of the Constitution is designed to guaranty the affectivity of the legal state in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The fulfillment of this requirement has passed through the establishment of the constitutional...

Civil Society organisations play key roles in African countries. This is not an exception in the Cameroonian dispensation. Indeed, the existence and operation of civil societies in this jurisdiction is legitimated by a 1990 law allowing the free...

The Tunisian Constitution of 2014 requires local authorities to adopt mechanisms of participatory democracy. This paper presents how citizen participation in development planning has been implemented by the Tunisian administration in the frame of...

Institutions and mechanisms for settlement of international investment disputes are manifold. For sure, rules, principles and core standards for decisions at international level laid down in various documents of public international law are widely...

This paper discusses the jurisdiction of Burundi’s Commission Nationale des Terres et autres Biens (National Commission on Land and other Assets) and of the Cour Spéciale des Terres et autres Biens (Special Court on Land and other Assets) where...

The Congolese hydrocarbons sector is one of the key areas of the national economy and constitutes one of the main resources for financing the state budget. However, the uncontrolled exploitation of hydrocarbons can have consequences on the...