In the recent case of Ekpenyong v The National Assembly & 2 Others, the Federal High Court of Nigeria declared the existence of the Administrative Proceedings Committee (APC) unconstitutional.

Nigeria has marked a significant milestone with its first shipment under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) to Kenya. AfCFTA, with 54 signatory countries, aims to boost intra-African trade...

The Advertising Regulatory Council of Nigeria (ARCON) has taken a decisive step towards establishing the continent's first indigenous stock image bank, named the Nigeria Stock Image Bank (NSIB).

Construction of the first state-of-the-art BioNTech mRNA production facility in Africa begun in Kigali on 23 June 2022. BioNTech co-developed the first approved mRNA-based vaccine (Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine) ...

The Hanga Agritech Innovation Challenge Fund, a collaboration between the Rwandan Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources and the World Bank...

OAPI closed out 2025 with a series of important developments aimed at strengthening intellectual property protection across its 17 member states.

The Board of Directors of OAPI have granted a second and final term to Director-General Denis Bohoussou Loukou as the head of OAPI. His first term of office ended in a crisis with his suspension on...

The recognition of factual dependency plays a crucial role in pension fund law, particularly in the allocation of death benefits under Section 37C of the Pension Funds Act ("the PFA").

On Friday, February 2, 2024, Mr. Denis BOHOUSSOU, Director General of OAPI, welcomed a delegation from the Heads of the "Health and Globalization, Standards, Policies, Market"...

Eskom, the country's only public power utility, is seriously battling to meet the electricity power demands of the population, and this is likely to have catastrophic consequences for the healthcare system.

The Tobacco Products and Electronic Delivery Systems Control Bill has progressed through South Africa's Portfolio Committee on Health, which recently adopted a motion of desirability.

During March 2019, at the request of the Royal Swaziland Police, our Anti-Counterfeiting Team met with senior members of the Police to assist in developing and strategizing...

Most South Africans are not aware of the different platforms available to them in situations when they are aggrieved by the conduct of a legal practitioner. Some of these platforms...

Rwanda's 2009 Law on Intellectual Property, expressly excludes pharmaceutical products from patent protection.

Once a party has been effectively served with summons, they must act promptly and follow the procedures set out in the Uniform Rules of Court ("the Rules of Court").

The well-known RocoMamas restaurant chain has taken Rack ‘n Grill, a small food truck business in Cape Town, to task about the infringement of its registered trade mark SMASHBURGER.

The President of the Republic of Seychelles H.E. Wavel Ramkalawan, signed the instrument of accession to the Harare Protocol on 26th August 2021 which was received by ARIPO on 1 October 2021.

Historically, trade marks filed in Burundi were valid indefinitely; therefore, there was no need to pay renewal fees in this jurisdiction. In 2009, the law regarding trade mark renewals in Burundi ...

The turnover in appointments of Ministers of Trade, who oversee the Registry functions, has always had a negative impact on the processing of applications ...

At the recent EPO-ARIPO heads of office meeting, a lack of understanding of IP rights and a need for infrastructure for investing in IP rights were identified as challenges in commercialising IP rights of African universities.