African states are no longer content to be hosts. They intend to be drivers.
Between January and April 2026, at least ten African governments amended mining codes, revised royalty structures, revoked licences, or imposed export restrictions on raw minerals....
The deals closed in early 2026 reflect two simultaneous dynamics. Host states are asserting control: the DRC blocked a Chinese bidder in favour of a...
This section tracks developments in key arbitration proceedings and disputes involving African mining assets in the months prior to May 2026, focusing on cases brought...
Resource sovereignty, geopolitical competition, and the legal framework for mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. An analysis of the DRC’s role in global...
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It is not enough to reform arbitration law. You also need systems to back it up.
Senior Counsel and former Attorney General of Malawi, Thabo Chakaka Nyiranda has been the architect of his country’s arbitration framework. He tells us about law,...
PAW 2026 confirmed that the sector has moved from the periphery to the centre of debates on sovereignty, energy transition, and the future of investor-state...
The instruments that govern mining in Africa: the laws that frame the sector, the treaties that bind, the deals that move it, and the disputes already in motion. Each dataset is sourced from authoritative records or encoded from primary materials, and continuously updated. Built to be read together, so a treaty, a policy shift, and a pending arbitration can be understood as one picture, not five.
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