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

This article is a critical assessment of the role played by the Heads of religious denominations in the 2011 electoral process in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It highlights the commitments made by these social leaders to contribute to a...

In Congolese law, the legal capacity of the married women is subjected to certain limitations. These restrictions include, notably, the exercise of professional activities for which marital authorization is a legal requirement. This is why some...

In a globalized international system of economic competition, development cannot take place without adequate legal structures which have to be adopted from industrialized countries. Their adoption, however, meets with three kinds of obstacles: lack...

Mainland Tanzania (Tanzania) is endowed with diverse water sources, some of which straddle national boundaries. Tanzania is located within two regional economic blocks, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the East African Community...

Sub-Saharan African countries have been continually searching for opportunities to transform their economic fortune. Among the central components for the envisioned transformation is the development of viable securities markets. These countries...

The nature of a right to minerals is controversial in South Africa. With the recent coming into force of new legislation governing mineral resources, the conventional view is that there has been a drastic shift of control over the country’s...