Arbitration in Africa: A Practitioner's Guide, 2nd Edition

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Arbitration in Africa: A Practitioner's Guide, 2nd Edition

By Lise Bosman
Kluwer Law International September 2021

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ISBN-13
9789403539904
Publisher
Kluwer Law International
Publication
September 2021
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
Africa ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Arbitration in Africa provides an overview of arbitration legislation and arbitral practice within African jurisdictions and within African regions, and showcases the growing pool of authoritative African practitioners and scholars active in the field of international arbitration. The second edition of this unprecedented volume assembles an updated and expanded country-by-country analysis – both practical and insightful – of how arbitration is conducted in forty-nine African countries, providing essential information about legislative provisions, treaty adherence, and arbitral procedure. This updated volume also provides valuable insight into how African courts treat arbitral proceedings and arbitration-related court proceedings.

What’s in this book:

The book has five sections representing the main regions of the continent, each with a substantive introductory chapter covering the major trends within that region. The book offers country overviews addressing issues such as the following:

  • adherence to the key arbitration conventions;
  • modernity of a State’s arbitration legislation and its compatibility with the UNCITRAL Model Law;
  • particular features of arbitral practice in that jurisdiction (including responses to the COVID-19 pandemic);
  • access to and (where available) statistics from local and regional arbitral institutions;
  • significant arbitration-related national case law; and
  • enforcement of foreign arbitral awards.

A sixth section on treaty-based investor-State arbitration against African States under the ICSID Convention provides an empirical analysis of the experience and record of African States with investor-State arbitration in the period between 2010 and 2020.

Each contribution in the second edition has been updated to reflect current legislative developments and highlight new trends in arbitral practice in the jurisdiction.

How this will help you:

Arbitration practitioners and legal academics everywhere welcomed the first edition of this volume as an essential guide to an emerging and important area of international arbitration practice. This second edition tracks the significant developments (in treaty accession, reform of arbitration legislation and developing case law) that have taken place over the past decade, and is a useful tool not just for practitioners but also for those required to advise on the arbitration climate of a particular African country as part of an investment decision process. 

General Editor:

Lise Bosman

With a Foreword by Funke Adekoya SAN

Table of Contents

General Editor

List of Contributors

Foreword

Preface

List of Abbreviations

Part I        Southern Africa

Chapter 1 The Southern African Development Community and the UNCITRAL Model Law

Lise Bosman

Chapter 1.1

Angola

Sofia Martins, Ricardo Saraiva & Leonor van Lelyveld

Chapter 1.2

Botswana

John Carr-Hartley

Chapter 1.3

Lesotho

Ts’olo Everrit Kalake

Chapter 1.4

Madagascar

Raphaël Jakoba

Chapter 1.5

Malawi

Shabir Latif SC

Chapter 1.6

Mauritius

Salim A.H. Moollan Q.C. & Anne-Sophie Jullienne

Chapter 1.7

Mozambique

Tomás Timbane & Pascoal Bié

Chapter 1.8

Namibia

Karin Klazen

Chapter 1.9

The Republic of Seychelles

Bernard Georges

Chapter 1.10

South Africa

Lise Bosman

Chapter 1.11

Zambia

Sydney Chisenga

Chapter 1.12

Zimbabwe

Ronald Mutasa

Part II      West Africa

Chapter 2 International Arbitration in the West African States

Emilia Onyema & Isaiah Bozimo

Chapter 2.1

Cape Verde

Sofia Martins, António Pedro Gonçalves, Ricardo Saraiva & Leonor van Lelyveld

Chapter 2.2

The Republic of the Gambia

Ike Ehiribe

Chapter 2.3

Ghana

Emmanuel Amofa

Chapter 2.4

Nigeria

Emilia Onyema & Isaiah Bozimo

Chapter 2.5

São Tomé and Príncipe

Sofia Martins, Ricardo Saraiva & Geneleyse Franca e Lagos

Chapter 2.6

Sierra Leone

Abayomi Okubote

Part III    East Africa

Chapter 3      International Arbitration in East African States

Ndanga Kamau

Chapter 3.1          

Burundi

René-Claude Madebari & Happy-Hervé Ntwari

Chapter 3.2          

Djibouti

Guled Yusuf

Chapter 3.3          

Eritrea

Kebreab Habte Michael & Lise Bosman

Chapter 3.4          

Ethiopia

Mesfin Tafesse

Chapter 3.5          

Kenya

Wairimu Karanja

Chapter 3.6          

Rwanda

Didas M. Kayihura

Chapter 3.7          

Somalia

Guled Yusuf & Maryan Hassan

Chapter 3.8          

South Sudan

Adhieu Malual Kuir

Chapter 3.9          

Sudan

Inaam S. Attiq

Chapter 3.10       

Tanzania

Madeline Kimei

Chapter 3.11       

Uganda

Jimmy M. Muyanja

Part IV         North Africa

Chapter 4      Arbitration in North Africa: An Overview

Sami Houerbi

Chapter 4.1          

Algeria

Nasr-Eddine Lezzar

Chapter 4.2          

Egypt

Mohamed Abdel Raouf

Chapter 4.3          

Libya

Ahmed Ouerfelli

Chapter 4.4          

Morocco

Aïcha Brahma

Chapter 4.5          

Tunisia

Walid Ben Hamida

Part V      The OHADA Region

Chapter 5      Arbitration under the Common Court of Justice and Arbitration of the OHADA Contracting States

Gaston Kenfack Douajni & Philippe Leboulanger

Chapter 5.1          

Benin

Achille André Ngwanza

Chapter 5.2          

Burkina Faso

Achille André Ngwanza

Chapter 5.3          

Cameroon

Julius Nkafu

Chapter 5.4          

Central African Republic

Achille André Ngwanza

Chapter 5.5          

Chad

Achille André Ngwanza

Chapter 5.6

The Republic of Congo

Sofia Martins, Ricardo Saraiva & Océane Paprocki

Chapter 5.7          

Democratic Republic of Congo

Tanayi Mbuy-Mbiye & Freddy Mulamba Senene

Chapter 5.8          

Equatorial Guinea

João Amaral & Ricardo Saraiva

Chapter 5.9          

Gabon

Ricardo Saraiva & Thierry Nguia

Chapter 5.10       

Guinea-Bissau

Ricardo Saraiva & Ismael Mendes de Medina

Chapter 5.11       

Ivory Coast

Achille André Ngwanza

Chapter 5.12       

Mali

Mamadou Ismaïla Konate

Chapter 5.13       

Niger

Achille André Ngwanza

Chapter 5.14       

Senegal

Achille André Ngwanza

Chapter 5.15       

Togo

Achille André Ngwanza

Chapter 5.16        

Consolidated OHADA-Related Bibliography

Part VI: Investment Treaties and Investor-State Arbitration

Chapter 6 Treaty Investor-State Arbitrations Against African States under the ICSID Convention

Karel Daele & Susan Kimani

Annex 1 to Chapter 6: Intra-Africa BITs

Annex 2 to Chapter 6: BITs Entered into by Region

Annex 3 to Chapter 6: Ranking African States in Terms of BITs

Annex 4 to Chapter 6: Chronological List of ICSID Proceedings Involving African States 2010–2020

Appendices

APPENDIX I
Table of African Arbitration Legislation

APPENDIX II
UNCITRAL Model Law States

APPENDIX III
Treaty Adherence of African States

Index

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