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

The effects of regional economic integration on trade and development of the Member States of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was chosen as topic for this article to examine how much impact regional integration has made among...

This paper analyses the exercise of judicial power in Cameroon since the coming into force of the Unitary Constitution of 2 June 19721 and the Judicial Organization Ordinance of the same year.2 It points out the various difficulties and shortcomings...

In Cameroon, urban problems are fundamentally land problems. In fact, land needs caused by urban growth are considerable. Therefore, land problems are in the center of city plan- ning. However, city planning cannot make abstraction of the crucial...

This paper aims to discuss the issue of the judicial protection of human rights in post-con- flict Burundi. In doing so, it provides some insights into Burundi’s legal and institutional framework. It further assesses this framework through the...

This paper examines the individual recourse for unconstitutionality under the Congolese Constitution of 18 February 2006. It focuses on practical modalities for its exercise rather than analysing the merits of cases dealt with by the Congolese...

The issue of social protection has undergone something of a renaissance in the development policy debate in recent years and has lately become a particular focus of interest for several international organizations, primarily for the International...

The South African social protection system makes provision for all the nine standard branches contained in the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention 102 of 1952, namely: medical care, sickness,...

The Maputo Protocol is an African human rights instrument that seeks to protect African women and girls from the negative effects of cultural woes. Hence, this Protocol has been hailed as an African solution to African problems. However, though the...

The right to social protection has been enshrined in international law since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, but only an estimated one in four people in the world, and less than one in ten in Africa, have effectively realised this...

The range of actors involved in providing social protection in Africa is considerably more diverse than is reflected in the current round of policy formulation. Accordingly, a fairly comprehensive view of social protection should be considered....

The concept of fair trial and the right to cross-examine by an accused person are fundamental in the broad spectrum of administration of justice in any jurisdiction. Both may well be said to form part of the concept of rule of law. The right to a...

This paper critically presents the book Traité de droit international public (Treatise of Public International Law) which was published by Professor Auguste Mampuya in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 2016. Given its important size, we...