11 May 2023: Tanzanian Personal Data Protection, Restrictions on the Alienation and Use of Land in Ghana, and More on The Finance Bill in Kenya

Kenya - by Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr?

Finance Bill, 2023: An analysis of the major tax proposals?

The long-awaited Finance Bill, 2023 was finally tabled before the National Assembly on 4 May 2023. The Bill comes after a lot of speculation by taxpayers, lobbying by business associations, and speeches or promises from government officials. The Finance Bill 2023 comes at a time when the KRA is keen to collect tax within 24 hours if not in real time. There are a couple of amendments in the Bill which will facilitate this such as the codification of electronic tax invoice management system and the requirement to account for Withholding Tax within 24 hours.?Continue reading

Tanzania - by ABC Attorneys

The Personal Data Protection Act No. 11 of 2022 is now operational

Vide Government Notice no 326 of the 28th of April, 2023, the Minister for Information, Communication and Information Technology Mr.Nape Nnauye has pronounced the 1st of May 2023 as the operational date for the most awaited Act on personal data Protection.?Continue reading

Ghana - by P&B Associates

Restrictions On The Alienation And Use Of Land In Ghana?

One of the most valuable assets that a person can acquire in Ghana is land (immovable or real property). In recent times, the most common means of acquiring land in Ghana has been through alienation: the voluntary gift or sale of the title to a parcel of land to another party. This concept of alienation is not unbridled. There are certain restraints on some categories of transactions and on the alienation of certain types of land that prohibit owners from transferring or selling land at will.??Continue reading

Morocco

Morocco enters into a gas supply agreement with United Kingdom-headquartered energy firm Sound Energy after the Algerian government decided to terminate the Maghreb Europe pipeline.?

Mauritius

United Arab Emirates-based airline Emirates commits to supporting the promotion of the Mauritian tourism industry through a Memorandum of Understanding signed with the?Mauritius Tourism Promotion Authority (MTPA).?

Senegal

Court of Appeal hands opposition Patriotes africains du Sénégal pour le travail, l’éthique et la fraternité (Pastef) leader Ousmane Sonko a six-month suspended sentence in a libel case, casting into doubt his presidential bid and triggering a small protest in Dakar that riot police quelled with teargas.?

Cameroon

Government plans to allocate 10.5 billion FCFA ($17.59m) between 2023 and 2025 to strengthen the supply of financing for the agricultural sector.?

Afriwise acquires AI-based Pythagoria

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