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Working in the African legal context comes with its challenges, but it is exactly these challenges that have created fertile ground for building one of the world’s most innovative legal-tech platforms: Afriwise. Today, Afriwise is set to leapfrog as a global leader after ..
The collaboration will see Afriwise and Legal Interact team to market each other solutions and products and provide in-house legal teams and legal practices in Africa with more integrated solutions. Afriwise is transforming legal intelligence for Africa, providing o..
Afriwise is pleased to report a new strategic partnership with Law Business Research, the parent company of Lexology. The partnership will focus on sharing content sets that can mutually benefit Afriwise and Lexology subscribers. Lexology is a global legal res..
There is an African proverb that states, “Greed loses what it has gained.” Corruption has been rife throughout the continent, often with the active acquiescence of Western and other foreign entities. However, anti-corruption initiatives have taken hold in many African cou..
Bribery and extortion, including of the so-called ‘petty’ type, is pervasive throughout Africa. Studies have shown that stringent anti-corruptions laws from other countries, such as those in the United States and European Union (EU), have actively helped to combat or at l..
In most African countries, there continues to be a disconnect, even gulf at times, between what is on the law books on the one hand, and meaningful enforcement thereof on the other. This is of course not unique to Africa, but remains neverthel..
The African continent has been slow to introduce cybersecurity legislation. The latest Global Cybersecurity Index released in June 2021 showed that only 29 countries, out of the 54 assessed, had introduced cybersecurity legislation. It also found that only 10 African coun..
The rate at which Africa’s digital space has been growing in recent years has been outstripping the rate at which governments are able to introduce cybersecurity laws to regulate and protect this unfamiliar landscape. Cybercriminals have e..
Mauritius has a sophisticated financial services industry and a vibrant ICT sector. It is increasingly well placed to take advantage of the opportunities FinTech brings for both Africa and the rest of the world.
