Africa: Food, Drugs, Healthcare, Life Sciences

This comprehensive legal update covers recent developments across South African law, from pharmaceutical naming regulations and copyright platform liability to VAT amendments affecting insurance and digital services. The collection explores emerging challenges in intellectual property protection, cryptocurrency regulation, and data brokering, while examining how AI and digital transformation are reshaping traditional legal frameworks.

On December 16, 2025, the European Commission (the "Commission") published a proposal for a European Biotech Act (the "Proposed Biotech Act" or "Proposal").

Nigeria's digital health sector is growing rapidly as founders, investors and healthcare providers leverage technology to improve access, efficiency and patient engagement.

Nigeria's proposed ban on sachet alcohol presents a complex regulatory paradox where public health objectives collide with economic realities. While aimed at protecting minors and reducing alcohol-related harm, the policy threatens millions of jobs, billions in investments, and risks driving consumers toward dangerous unregulated alternatives in the informal market.

This comprehensive legal update covers recent developments across South African law, from pharmaceutical naming regulations and copyright platform liability to VAT amendments affecting insurance and digital services. The collection explores emerging challenges in intellectual property protection, cryptocurrency regulation, and data brokering, while examining how AI and digital transformation are reshaping traditional legal frameworks.

Medical errors are an inevitable reality of human healthcare systems, but the legal and ethical crisis emerges when those errors are concealed rather than disclosed. As Nigeria undergoes healthcare reforms between 2023...

This comprehensive legal update covers recent developments across South African law, from pharmaceutical naming regulations and copyright platform liability to VAT amendments affecting insurance and digital services. The collection explores emerging challenges in intellectual property protection, cryptocurrency regulation, and data brokering, while examining how AI and digital transformation are reshaping traditional legal frameworks.

When people walk into a restaurant, they expect to leave satisfied, not hospitalised. The duty placed on food vendors is not merely commercial, but is closely tied to public health and safety.

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has alerted the public to the distribution of unregistered and suspected counterfeit Colgate toothpaste in Kaduna State. Following a complaint received by the Post-Marketing Surveillance Directorate, NAFDAC officials discovered suspected counterfeit products branded as “Coglaet ActivGel 100g” and “Coglaet Herbal 100g” being sold at a retail outlet.