Tri-Partite Free Trade Area bringing COMESA, EAC, and SADC to enter into force on 25 July 2024
Category: Law Notes
In a major milestone for regional integration in Africa, the Tri-Partite Free Trade Agreement bringing together the Member States of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC), and the Partner States of the East African Community will enter into force on 25
2024 International Relations Society of Kenya Conference to be held in Nairobi, 20-22 November 2024
Category: Law Notes
The 2024 International Relations Society of Kenya annual conference will be held in Nairobi, Kenya, from 20-22 November 2024. The conference is organised jointly with the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, African Centre for the Constructive Settlement of Disputes, and the African Centre for the Study of the
The Finance Bill 2024 and Legal Plunder: An Ode to Frédéric Bastiat’s ‘the Law’ The last two weeks have seen major protests in several towns in Kenya against the Finance Bill 2024. The Finance Bill 2024 was intended to amend several Acts to allow the government to levy more taxes
Digital giant Google has been sued in a North Carolina court for negligence over a fatal accident by a motorist who used the Google Maps app that directed him to a washed-out bridge in which he died. Philip Paxson was driving home from a birthday party, on a route that
Happy Africa Day!
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25th May is designated as Africa Day, commemorating the founding of the Organisation of African Unity in 1963 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The OAU became the African Union in 2002 and has undertaken many initiatives to promote African integration. The most ambitious of these is the establishment of the Africa