On this page, we are pleased to provide a selection of “FAQ” or frequently requested information in relation to African antitrust & competition law resources to our readership.
It is an evolving compendium of links to [mostly original] resource materials — please let us know your suggestions for inclusion of additional links, either via the comments section below or by direct e-mail to the editors.

COMESA MEMBER STATES:

The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa is a free-trade area and customs union comprising 19 Member States:

• Burundi
• Comoros
• D.R. Congo
• Djibouti
• Egypt
• Eritrea
• Ethiopia
• Kenya
• Libya
• Madagascar
• Malawi
• Mauritius
• Rwanda
• Seychelles
• Sudan
• Swaziland
• Uganda
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Articles of interest:

• “Zero Threshold Contagion” [COMESA]
• “Crossing the Competition Rubicon” [COMESA]
• “Balancing Public Interest Merger Considerations with the Quest for Multi-Jurisdictional Merger Control Certainty” [South Africa and Botswana]
• “Public Interest Factors in African Competition Policy” [general]
• Cartel regulation in South Africa (2014) and Cartels: Developments in South Africa

Our “The Big Picture” series:

• History of maturing competition-law regimes in Africa

African supranational organisations:

• Very helpful diagrammatic, clickable visualisation of all major supranational bodies on the African continent

COMESA:

• Key collection of articles on COMESA competition law
• 2013 Article on COMESA CCC: “Crossing the Competition Rubicon“
• COMESA FAQ
• COMESA Competition Regulations and Rules (1) / Rules (2).
• Five comprehensive draft Guidelines (issued by the CCC on August 24, 2013)
• Map of COMESA member states
• Outdated (but still online) COMESA merger handbook

South Africa:

• Competition Amendment Act 2009
• Prevention and Combating of Corrupt Activities Act
• Competition Act

BRICS competition law issues & articles

Cartel articles – and specifically also: Cartel regulation in South Africa (2014) and Cartels: Developments in South Africa

Dominance / monopolisation / unilateral conductarticles

Articles on antitrust enforcers taking into account extra-judicial or non-competition based factors

African health-care and antitrust

Ghana articles – Mozambique pieces – Namibia posts – Nigeria musings – Tanzania & Uganda

Everything on Mergers & Acquisitions (& JVs)

African antitrust and Telecoms

Kenya:

• Kenyan Competition Authority (CAK)