https://www.bizcommunity.com/412/717.html West Africa Legislation & Regulation news 15 Legislation & Regulation news - West Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/res/img/logo.gif https://www.bizcommunity.com/412/717.html en-us Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:29:35 +0200 https://www.bizcommunity.com/article/burkina-faso-outlaws-lgbtq-practices-510870a Burkina Faso's transitional parliament passed legislation outlawing conduct deemed to promote LGBTQ practices, introducing fines, prison sentences and sanctions for persons convicted, its justice minister said. 1-261036 Tue, 02 Sep 2025 16:43:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Legislation & Regulation West Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/article/nigerian-agency-fines-multichoice-for-data-privacy-breaches-478429a Nigeria's data protection agency has fined Multichoice Nigeria Limited, Africa's biggest pay television company, 766 million naira ($501,340) for violating the country's data protection law, a spokesperson said. 1-259145 Tue, 08 Jul 2025 11:42:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Legislation & Regulation West Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/article/privacy-breach-more-details-into-whatsapps-220m-fine-in-nigeria-583780a The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (Commission), being the foremost agency in Nigeria, responsible for the promotion, protection, and enforcement of competition and consumer protection, initiated an investigation against WhatsApp during 2021. 1-250896 Thu, 15 Aug 2024 13:10:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Legislation & Regulation West Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/article/eu-will-not-delay-deforestation-law-environment-chief-says-on-ivory-coast-visit-453349a The European Union is not planning to delay a new law to crack down on the import of commodities linked to deforestation, its environment commissioner said, despite some governments urging Brussels to postpone the landmark rules. 1-247415 Mon, 08 Apr 2024 14:27:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Legislation & Regulation West Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/188/717/223868.html Senegalese lawmakers on Tuesday stopped from passing to parliamentary vote a draft bill that sought to toughen already severe laws against same-sex relations. 1-223868 Thu, 06 Jan 2022 15:03:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Legislation & Regulation West Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com.gh/Article/83/828/222108.html Supporters and opponents of Ghana's new anti-LGBT bill faced off in parliament on Wednesday, 10 November 2021, in the first public hearings into the proposed legislation that would make it a crime to be gay, bisexual or transgender. 1-222108 Fri, 12 Nov 2021 11:45:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Legislation & Regulation West Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/307/217147.html Discarded single-use plastic shopping bags (SUPBs) are a growing environmental menace. Dubbed the 'white flower' in South Africa, the negative effects of SUPBs include reducing the aesthetic value of landscapes, clogging waterways, depleting petroleum reserves through their production, and endangering marine life through entanglement and ingestion. 1-217147 Wed, 23 Jun 2021 08:47:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Legislation & Regulation West Africa https://www.bizcommunity.co.ke/Article/111/717/216051.html The regulatory net is closing on Kenya's fintech industry. 1-216051 Thu, 20 May 2021 15:14:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Legislation & Regulation West Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/727/211852.html In the midst of the planetary emergency of climate change, Covid-19 is testing modern civilisation's preparedness for shocks, across the spheres of finance, economics and technology; global, national and regional governance; global and population health; social cohesion and food security. This is according to Baker McKenzie's new report, Unprecedented: Converging Crises, which notes that while the vast majority of businesses around the world are now in the throes of the immediate impacts of the pandemic, the consequences of this abrupt global change will reverberate for decades to come. With the acute phase of the Covid-19 response mostly complete, business leaders have begun to look at how to position themselves to succeed in a turbulent world, with organisations in different sectors having to adapt to specific industry challenges brought about by the pandemic. 1-211852 Wed, 06 Jan 2021 08:11:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Legislation & Regulation West Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com.gh/Article/83/608/197833.html Small-scale mining forms an important sector of Ghana's economy, employing one million people directly and supporting the livelihoods of about 4.5-million people. The industry accounts for 35% of the country's total gold production. 1-197833 Wed, 13 Nov 2019 06:33:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Legislation & Regulation West Africa