Sources of Online Legal Information for African Countries

By Dean Deane

Dean Deane (J.D., M.A., M.L.I.S.) is the Foreign, Comparative, and International Law Librarian at the University of California, College of the Law in San Francisco, California.

Published November/December 2024

(Previously updated by Jane Williams in August 2007, March/April 2009, May/June 2011, and April/May 2015; subsequently updated by Vincent Moyer in January 2019)

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1. Introduction

The purpose of this article is to identify online resources for locating the legal materials of African states. It will first identify meta-sites useful for both background information and links to legal information. The next part will identify secondary sources, which can help locate sources and issues. The third section will list primary sources grouped by region, topic, and country. The final part will list the websites of some African regional organizations.

There are fifty-four recognized states and territories in Africa, according to the United Nations. However, there are disputed territories that could change the number of countries. The post-colonial period, through much of the continent, has been characterized by political instability, civil strife, war, economic underdevelopment, and weak legal systems. Thus, only a few African countries have a strong history of publishing and disseminating legal materials.

A useful source for determining what legislative materials are published for each jurisdiction is the Foreign Law Guide, a subscription database published by Brill (General Editor: Marci Hoffman). If you have access (through your local law school library or county law library), it is a good starting point for locating African laws. This fee-based database permits searching by country, provides brief introductions to the legal systems, lists current codes, and identifies available English translations.

GlobaLex, the open-access publication dedicated to the dissemination of high-quality articles on international, foreign, and comparative law research, is another source that researchers can consult. Under Foreign Law, articles of individual jurisdictions are listed in alphabetical order, each offering an introduction to the jurisdiction’s legal system, structure of the government (legislative, executive, and judicial branches), sources of law, legal publication, where to locate laws, and often other subject-specific sub-chapters.

In the past decade, there has been a trend in some countries toward better governance and transparency. An increasing number of governments have websites and/or parliamentary sites, some of which provide news, government reports, and other documents. Meta-sites, which include links to governments’ websites, country information, and legal information, include the following:

2. Secondary Sources

Given that there are a limited number of comprehensive databases or internet sites for the legal materials of African countries and that few law libraries have complete collections, secondary materials are important for identifying issues, recent developments, and documents. These include news sources, indexes, library and institute catalogs, journals, and papers.

2.1 News Sources

  • AllAfrica.com aggregates news sources from African organizations and elsewhere. A basic version with a topical search function is freely available. By subscribing, one has access to an archive going back to 1996 and the ability to search by keyword, category, publisher, and date.
  • Jurist (from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law) provides selected legal news for many African countries.
  • The BBC News Africa service is another good source for current information. This service also includes country profiles, government overviews, basic country facts, political information, and lists of reliable newspapers and other media.
  • The African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL) is an independent institute with country-by-country information for Africa and a searchable newsfeed covering current African news.
  • The African Law Firm Network, Lex Africa, provides legal news and informative articles about commercial matters.

2.2 Indexes and Catalogues

  • AfricaBib provides general online indexes with references to articles relating to legal issues, including the Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature, Quarterly Index of African Periodical Literature, and African Women’s Bibliographic Databases. These can be searched on AfricaBib by geographic region, periodical, subject, author, title, keyword, and date. A few articles link to full text.
  • The Quarterly Index of African Periodical Literature from the Library of Congress can also be accessed separately; it is another general Africana index that includes references to law-related articles published from 1991-2011.
  • African Journals Online (AJOL) is an online library of peer-reviewed, African-published scholarly journals. AJOL hosts 523 journals, including 251 open-access journals. All users can browse journals by category, alphabetically, or by country, or search for articles by keyword, title, or author. All users can view article abstracts and download full-text open-access articles. Subscribers can also view and download thousands of other full-text articles for a fee.
  • The African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL) is an independent institute that researches social science issues relating to Africa. Its library catalog identifies monographs, articles, and book chapters, some of which are related to law. ASCL provides access to the searchable African Studies Abstracts Online. The ASCL website also includes the full text of working papers and other publications.

3. Primary Sources

One can find online legal materials for African countries in fee-based databases, within-subject or regional collections, and on various country-specific sites. Few of the internet sites are comprehensive, and it can sometimes be difficult to determine the currency of the information.

3.1 Subscription Databases

  • VLex has limited collections of legislation and some secondary material for a few African states.
  • Global Regulation provides access to a rapidly growing searchable database of more than 1.5 million regulations from jurisdictions around the world. It includes regulations from nearly a dozen African countries.

3.2 Regional Collections

  • L’Association des Cours Constitutionnelles ayant en Partage l’Usage Français (ACCPUF) provides laws relating to constitutional institutions, some jurisprudence, and other material from its member states.
  • The Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, has a collection of resources listed by topic. Their Resources Databases cover topics including African human rights, the legal response to the African HIV epidemic, sexual minority rights, and indigenous peoples’ rights.
  • Constitute (constituteproject.org) is a comprehensive analysis of the world’s constitutions.
  • Droit-Afrique.com is a web portal for business law in French-speaking Africa. It includes commercial, customs, investment, employment, social security, and tax laws as well as materials from regional organizations.
  • The International Documentation Network on the Great African Lakes Region is an interesting collection of materials from a variety of governmental and nongovernmental sources. Included are Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda. A search may locate laws and decrees, although it is somewhat difficult to determine what material is included. Also note that if French, not English, is one of the official languages of a country, a search in French will generate more results for primary legal materials for that country. Collection updates ended in March 2009, but the earlier content is still available.
  • Juricaf collects Supreme Court cases from French-speaking countries.
  • Legis-Palop is a project designed to collect the legislation and jurisprudence of five of the Portuguese-speaking countries in Africa: Angola, Cabo Verde, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe. The website requires registration to search the available resources. Some material is available with registration, but other items require a subscription.
  • The Trade Law Centre (tralac) provides trade-related materials from regional organizations in East and South Africa.
  • Refworld has legislation from many African countries, loosely related to refugees.
  • Gazettes. Africa is the largest digital collection of free African Gazettes.

3.3 Subject Collections

Agriculture, Environment, Food, and Natural Resources

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations provides several important legal online databases (Thematic Collections/Associated Databases) including:

  • AgroecologyLex is a specialized database on different legal frameworks, policies, and programs concerning agroecology in different countries.
  • ECOLEX is an information service on environmental law, operated jointly by FAO, IUCN, and UNEP.
  • FAOLex is an up-to-date database of national laws and regulations relating to food, agriculture, and natural resources. It includes most African countries and provides links to full-text documents.
  • FishLex provides laws and regulations on coastal state requirements for foreign fishing.
  • WaterLex has international agreements and legislation on water resources.

Business Law

  • The Doing Business Law Library from the World Bank provides laws and regulations relating to business. Topics included are banking and credit laws, bankruptcy and collateral laws, civil codes, civil procedure codes, commercial and company laws, constitutions, labor laws, land and building laws, security laws, tax laws, and trade laws. One can search by country or topic.

Competition Law

  • The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) website includes a collection of National Competition Legislation for several African countries, including Kenya, Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Constitutions and Constitutional Law

Copyright, Patents, and Trademarks

  • UNESCO’s Collection of Copyright Laws includes the laws of thirty African countries.
  • WIPO Lex from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) provides texts for copyright, trademarks, and patent legislation from most African nations.

Criminal Law

Customary Law

Health Law

Human Rights

Humanitarian Law

Labor Law

  • The International Labour Organization (ILO) database NATLEX provides labor laws as well as laws on related subjects such as economic and social policy, free trade, and criminal law. Some of the sites provide the full text in English, Spanish, or French, while others provide only citations. Users can search or browse the laws by country or by subject.

Land Law and Housing

Non-Profit Law

  • The International Center for Not-for-Profit Law provides the text of laws governing various issues related to non-governmental organizations, including about twenty-two African countries. One must register to use the site, but otherwise, the documents are freely available.

Occupational Safety and Health

Organized Crime:

  • SHERLOC portal – An initiative to facilitate the dissemination of information regarding the implementation of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, the three Protocols thereto, and the international legal framework against terrorism. Includes legislation and case law databases.

Refugees

  • RefWorld is an amazing database from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) which provides the full text of national laws, cases, international legislation, policies, and reports relevant to assessing asylum claims. It also includes laws on citizenship, nationality, statelessness, human rights, and related issues.

Restorative Justice

Tax and Commercial Law

3.4 Resources by Country

Algeria

Collections:

  • Portail du Droit Algérien is a web portal to Algerian law from the Ministry of Justice. The site provides access to the constitution, codes, legislation, and treaties to which Algeria is a party. Supreme Court judgments are available in Arabic only.
  • Lex Algeria – the Algerian law portal, includes selected codes relating to public and private law.
  • Official Gazette of Algeria – the official publication used by the Algerian government to disseminate laws, decrees, orders, and other official announcements. It serves as the primary source for legal and regulatory information in Algeria.
  • The Council of the Nation – the upper house of the Algerian Parliament provides legal texts.
  • The National Assembly (Assemblée Populaire Nationale) site contains current and previous constitutions, draft laws, ratified bills, and ratified laws. See also, Global Data on National Parliaments – Algeria.

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Angola

Collections:

Law and Legislation:

  • The government portal site provides links to PDFs of the Constitution and legislation in force.
  • SAFLII – Legislation from 1976 to 2009.
  • Assembleia Nacional de Angola – The National Assembly is the legislative branch of the government of Angola.
  • Migration and Foreigners Service – Standards, regulations, decrees, and other legislation related to its activity.
  • Angola Gazettes – Official publication documenting important governmental information, including laws, decrees, regulations, and various official notices, serving as a historical archive of legal and governmental changes over time.
  • Lex Algeria – Portal on public and private Algerian law with selected links to the official texts or websites by Dahmène Touchent, lawyer and law professor.

Jurisprudence:

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Bénin

Law and Legislation:

  • The Bénin government website provides a searchable database of legislation.
  • Droit-Afrique – a centralized, comprehensive database of legal texts, including codes, laws, decrees, and jurisprudence specific to Benin. This platform ensures that users have access to up-to-date legal information, as well as resources related to OHADA, which is significant for business law in Benin.

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Botswana

Collections:

  • The Attorney General’s Chambers e-laws project published the Laws of Botswana (2016-2020). The Library of Congress maintains a web archive of this website.
  • Parliament of Botswana – This website includes Hansard and bills.

Law and Legislation:

Jurisprudence:

  • SAFLII database includes selected decisions from the High Court of Botswana (1999- ), the Court of Appeal (1981- ), and the Industrial Court (2004- ).

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Burkina Faso

Law and Legislation:

Jurisprudence:

  • Supreme Court decisions are included in Juricaf (1998-).

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Burundi

Law and Legislation:

  • The Assemblée Nationale website includes laws passed from 2005-current.
  • Senate (Senate) – Part of the bicameral Parliament. The Senate website contains references to legislative documents (in French).
  • Droit Afrique – Collection of various business laws from selected years (in French).
  • La Présidence official website – Contains selected legislative information (in French).
  • Africalaws – Provides access to select legislation on banking and finance law, commercial law, civil law, competition law, criminal law, employment law, family law, intellectual property law, and tax law.

Jurisprudence:

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Cabo Verde

Subscription Database:

  • Legis-PALOP is a subscription database containing legislation and jurisprudence of the traditional Portuguese-speaking regions of Africa (in Portuguese).

Law and Legislation:

  • Cabo Verde Constitution and select laws are available through Refworld.

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Cameroon

Law and Legislation:

Jurisprudence:

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Central African Republic

Law and Legislation:

  • Droit Afrique – A collection of business laws and links to legal and tax sites for the Central African Republic.

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Chad

Law and Legislation:

  • Droit Afrique – A collection of business laws and links to Chad’s legal and tax sites (Tchad).

Jurisprudence:

  • Supreme Court decisions are included in Juricaf (1999-2011).

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Comoros

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Congo (Democratic Republic)

Law and Legislation:

  • Droit de la Republique Democratique du Congo provides legislation arranged into nine subject categories; some provincial legislation; jurisprudence; books, articles, studies, and a legal bibliography. Much of the material is from the Journal Officiel but the subject arrangement allows material to be found more easily.
  • Leganet is another ongoing project to increase access to the legal materials of the DRC. It includes the Journal Officiel from 2002; some legislation from 1886-; jurisprudence from the Cour Supreme de Justice for 1985-2007; and some commentary (doctrine).
  • Senate (Senate) – Contains links to a search for judicial acts in the journal official. There is a fee to view the information.

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Congo (Republic)

Law and Legislation:

  • Assemblée Nationale (National Assembly) – includes links to laws.
  • Journal Officiel – Official publication where the government of the Republic of Congo publishes laws, decrees, orders, and other official announcements. It serves as the authoritative source for legal and regulatory information in the country. The print version is considered the official record, while the electronic version provides convenient access to the information.

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Côte d’Ivoire

Law and Legislation:

Jurisprudence:

  • Juricaf has selected Côte d’Ivoire case law.

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Djibouti

Law and Legislation:

Subscription Database:

  • JuriAfrica is a subscription-based database on African law with a small selection of Djibouti law.

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Egypt

Law and Legislation:

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Equatorial Guinea

Law and Legislation:

Eritrea

Law and Legislation:

Subscription Database:

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Eswatini (Kingdom of Eswatini)

Collections:

  • EswatiniLII includes numbered acts; legislation; decisions from the Industrial Court of Appeal, the High Court, Industrial Court, and Supreme Court; CMAC awards; and other legal materials.
  • WorldLII: Swaziland.

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Ethiopia

Law and Legislation:

Jurisprudence:

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Gabon

Law and Legislation:

Jurisprudence:

  • Juricaf has selected Gabon case law.

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Gambia

Law and Legislation:

  • Law Hub Gambia – This database includes:
    • Historic constitutional making documents, the previous constitutions, and the most up-to-date version of the 1997 Constitution.
    • A digital collection of Gambian case law and case summaries from the superior courts.
    • A selection of Gambian legislation as enacted.
    • Legal documents related to the Gambia and Human Rights Systems.
  • National Assembly of Gambia – This website includes links to the Constitution and the National Assembly Service Act.
  • The Lexadin World Law Guide provides links to select Gambian laws.
  • Refworld includes the Gambian Constitution and some legislation.

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Ghana

Subscription Database:

  • Ghana Law Reports. Accra: Council for Law Reporting, 1959- (also available online through Lexis-Nexis South Africa by paid subscription).

Legislation:

  • GhaLII publishes digital parliamentary, legislative, and judicial information from Ghana and ECOWAS. GhaLII works in partnership with the Judicial Service of Ghana.
  • The Bank of Ghana website includes the Banking Act and various other banking and financial laws of Ghana.
  • Parliamentary debates (Hansards), bills, acts, and various official documents can be found on the Parliament website.
  • The Ghana Law Database provides access to legal texts related to forest and natural resource governance in Ghana. To access, select English Global.
  • The Lexadin World Law Guide provides links to more than 100 Ghanaian laws.
  • The Ghana Investment Promotion Centre provides access to the Technology Transfer Regulations, Foreign Exchange Act, Ghana Investment Promotion Centre Act, the Ghana Investment Act, and various laws on doing business in Ghana.

Jurisprudence:

  • GhaLII publishes digital parliamentary, legislative, and judicial information from Ghana and ECOWAS. GhaLII works in partnership with the Judicial Service of Ghana.
  • CommonLII provides selected Ghana land law decisions.

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Guinea

Law and Legislation:

Jurisprudence:

  • Court of Appeals decisions are included in Juricaf.

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Guinea-Bissau

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Kenya

Law and Legislation:

  • Kenya Law Reports from the National Council for Law Reporting provides an up-to-date edition of the Laws of Kenya in a searchable database. Cases from the High Court and Court of Appeal (1980- ) are also searchable, but not all the cases are online. Kenya Law Reports also includes the Kenya Gazette from 2005, the Hansards, the Constitution, bills and a bill tracker, practice notes, and other material.

Subscription Database:

  • East Africa Law Reports series from LawAfrica include judgments from Kenya’s courts.

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Lesotho

Law and Legislation:

  • The Lesotho Legal Information Institute (LesLII) provides free access to law from Lesotho. Here you can find legislation as enacted (1861- ); subsidiary legislation (1980-); and judgments from the Court of Appeal and the High Court (1980- ), from the High Court Commercial division (2010- ), from the High Court Constitutional Division (2007- ), from the High Land Court Division (2014), from the Labour Appeal Court (2003- ), and from the Labour Court (1994- ).

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Liberia

Collections:

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Libya

Law and Legislation:

  • NATLEX: Libya includes labor laws, social security, and human rights laws.

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Madagascar

Law and Legislation:

Jurisprudence:

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Malawi

Collections:

  • Malawi Legal Information Institute (MalawiLII) provides access to a selection of Malawi legislation as enacted (1965-2012); judgments from the Supreme Court of Appeal (1993-2018), the High Court: General Division (1995-2018), the Commercial Court (2010-2018), and the Industrial Relations Court (1994-2016); and Lilongwe & Zomba Magistrate decisions (2018).

Law and Legislation:

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Mali

Law and Legislation:

Jurisprudence:

  • Selected Supreme Court decisions are included on Juricaf (1993-2021).

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Mauritania

Law and Legislation:

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Mauritius

Law and Legislation:

Jurisprudence:

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Morocco

Law and Legislation:

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Mozambique

Collections:

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Namibia

Subscription Database:

  • Juta provides subscription services to the current consolidation of statutes and the Namibian Law Reports for decisions of all superior courts since independence in 1990.

Collections:

  • Southern African Legal Information Institute (SAFLII) provides a partial collection of the Government Gazettes (1990-2017); acts (1990-1995, 1998, 2000, and 2003-2016); and decisions from the High Court, the Supreme Court, and the Labour Court.
  • NamibLII provides access to 1) judgments from the Supreme Court of Namibia, the High Court of Namibia, and the Labour Court of Namibia, 2) legislation (1990-2016), 3) the official government gazette, and 4) Law Reform and Development Commission (LRDC) Reports.

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Niger

Jurisprudence:

  • Cour Constitutionelle website includes decisions from 2001.
  • Juricaf includes decisions from the Cour d’appel, Cour suprême, Cour Constitutionelle, and several other courts.

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Nigeria

Collection:

  • International Centre for Nigerian Law provides federal laws still in force and the Laws of the Federation of Nigeria (2000), a list of laws passed from 1990 to 2006 that are still in force as of 2006, and procedural rules for the various courts. It also includes decisions from the Nigerian Law Reports and other judgments. This material is also available via WorldLII.

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Rwanda

Law and Legislation:

Jurisprudence:

Special Tribunal:

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São Tomé and Príncipe

Law and Legislation:

Jurisprudence:

  • Juricaf provides links to a very small collection of Cour suprême case decisions.

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Senegal

Law and Legislation:

Jurisprudence:

  • ACCPUF (Association des Cours Constitutionnelles ayant en Partage l’Usage du Français) includes decisions from the Conseil constitutionnel for the period 1993-2005.
  • Juricaf provides links to selected case law from several Senegal courts.

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Seychelles

Collections:

  • Seychelles Legal Information Institute (SeyLII) includes the Seychelles Law Reports (1997-2013), Constitutional Court decisions (2000-2018), Supreme Court decisions (1970-2018), Supreme Court Commercial List decisions (2013-2018), Court of Appeal decisions (1983-2018), the electronic Grey Book (an unofficial consolidation of acts and statutory instruments), Laws of Seychelles with a list by keyword categories, numbered acts, statutory instruments, and cause lists.

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Sierra Leone

Collections:

  • Sierra Leone Legal Information Institute (SierraLII) includes selected decisions from the Supreme Court (1941-2016), the Court of Appeal (1937-2018), the High Court (1972-2018), and the Special Court (2004-2014). SierraLII also has selected legislation, including numbered acts (1931-2017 with a list of categories), consolidated acts, and statutory instruments.

Law and Legislation:

Special Tribunal:

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Somalia

Law and Legislation:

  • Parliament – selected laws.
  • SomalilandLaw.com provides information about the Constitution and laws of the Republic of Somaliland. The full texts of the Constitution and some of the main laws are found here in English or in Somali where no translation is available.

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South Africa

Subscription databases:

  • Juta offers several online subscription databases, which provide comprehensive access to both government and provincial legal materials.
  • LexisNexis South Africa is another major provider of South African legal materials.
  • Sabinet provides full-text access to government and provincial gazettes and parliamentary bills.
  • Green Gazette – The government gazette of South Africa. You can register for a free account to get alerts, but to access the documents, you need a subscription.

Collections:

  • Southern African Legal Information Institute (SAFLII) provides access to legislation (Numbered Acts 1993- ) and decisions from many courts, including the Constitutional Court(1995- ), the Supreme Court of Appeal (1984- ), the Labour Appeal Court (1997- ), Labour Court (1997- ), Land Claims Court (1996- ), the Competition Tribunal (1999- ), Competition Appeal Court (2000- ), Electoral Court (2001-2009), and the provincial courts.

Law and Legislation:

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In addition to the SAFLII database, the following courts provide decisions on their websites:

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South Sudan

Law and Legislation:

International Law:

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Sudan

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Tanzania

Subscription databases:

  • Juta provides the Tanzania Law Reports (1983-1997) and the Laws of Tanzania: Principal and subsidiary legislation.
  • Law Africa Law Reports from LawAfrica include judgments from Tanzania’s courts.

Law and Legislation:

  • The Parliament website provides a searchable database of laws from 1962 to the present. The Parliament site also provides current bills and their status. Hansards for the current Parliament are available in Kiswahili. The legislation is also available on TanzLII (1920- ).
  • TanzLII also provides access to the Government Gazette (2006- ).

Jurisprudence:

  • TanzLII – Judgments from High Courts and the Court of Appeal as well as documents and guidelines from the judiciary of Tanzania (e.g. Sentencing and bail guidelines). TanzLII also includes finding tools, such as Case indexes, to find cases by topics: Commercial, Environmental, Human Rights, and Refugees.

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Togo

Collections:

  • Ministère de la Justice has a collection of laws published in the Journaux Officiels (1920-2014) and decisions from the Cour Constitutionelle (1997-2014) and Cour Supreme (1963-2014).

Law and Legislation:

Jurisprudence:

  • Juricaf has selected the Supreme Court, Appellate Court, and Court of First Instance decisions.

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Tunisia

Law and Legislation:

  • Juriste Tunisie is a large French language database arranged by subject, which provides codes, laws, and decrees related to both public and private law.
  • Lexadin has selected legislation arranged by topic.
  • Portail de la Justice en Tunisie includes legal codes and court procedure manuals.
  • The full text of laws and regulations relating to financial markets is available on the Bourse de Tunis website.
  • Refworld has the Tunisian Constitution and some legislation, related to immigration law.

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Uganda

Subscription database:

  • Africa Law Reports from LawAfrica include judgments from Uganda’s courts.
  • Uganda Online Law Library is a subscription service providing access to laws, statutory instruments, and judicial decisions. A few items are free, including selected legislation, subsidiary legislation, a cause list, directory information, and a few judgments.

Collection:

  • The Uganda Legal Information Institute – ULII provides access to laws in the Ugandan Gazette, Consolidated Legislation, Statutory Instruments, Acts of Parliament, and selected decisions from many Ugandan courts including the Commercial Court, Constitutional Court, Court of Appeal, High Court, Supreme Court, and Center for Arbitration and Dispute Resolution.

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Zambia

Subscription database:

  • Juta provides the Zambia Law Reports (1963-1997).

Collections:

  • Zambia Legal Information Institute – ZambiaLII provides Acts of Parliament, Laws of Zambia (2006), bills, Statutory Instruments (2002-2018), and decisions from several courts including the Supreme Court (1974-2018), the High Court (1978-2018), and the Constitutional Court of Zambia.

Law and Legislation:

  • The Zambian Parliament website includes recent acts, Laws of Zambia, and debates and proceedings of recent sessions of Parliament.

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Zimbabwe

Subscription database:

  • Juta provides a subscription service to Zimbabwe Law Reports.

Collections:

  • Zimbabwe Legal Information Institute (ZimLII) includes the Laws of Zimbabwe, Acts of Parliament, and decisions from the Supreme Court (1983-2018), Constitutional Court, Harare High Court, Bulawayo High Court, and Labour Court.

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4. Websites of Regional Organizations