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Africa: Country Contacts & Research Links

Regional Links

Links to national laws, regional treaties, and regional development projects will be added as they are identified. Links will be available both through the country links (on the left hand side of each regional page) and through issue-specific webpages. We anticipate that there will be an intensive push to add research links during the summer of 2005. Please advise us of any websites you find particularly useful in your research efforts, and re-visit the research section of our website in September, 2005.

Regional Contacts

Algeria - Moncef Ghrib

Chad - Maaike De Langen

Egypt - Mahmoud Sabra

Mahmoud Sabra teaches, researches, and consults about legal drafting. He has written several books on the translation of contracts, principles of drafting, and legal writing.

 

Ghana - Raymond Atuguba

Raymond Atuguba teaches Conflict of Laws, Administrative Law and Commercial Law at the Law Faculty and Business School in the University of Ghana. He is a co-founder, and the Acting Executive Director, of the Legal Resources Centre (LRC); a human rights and development organisation that seeks to use law as a tool for national development.

Professor Atuguba earned his Doctorate from Harvard Law School. (Raymond's doctoral thesis on "Institutional Continuities: The Police in the Regulation of Public Order and Alcohol in Ghana" is available with Harvard Law Library and through the Seidmans. Raymond is currently working on an article and a bill based on part of his doctoral dissertation on the Police.) While at Harvard, Raymond audited a Legislative Drafting course run by Ann and Bob Seidman at Boston University School of Law. Since leaving Boston, Mr. Atuguba has continued his relationship with the Seidmans. In 2003, Raymond participated in Boston University's Distance Course on Legislative Drafting for Democratic Social Change with a group of his students. Through the Distance Course, Professor Atuguba's group drafted a research report and a bill on the regulation of muslim marriages. The co-founder of our centre, the LRC, who has just been elected Member of Parliament, will forward the draft as a private member's bill in Parliament in April 2005.

This January, the LRC will receive 20 interns from Harvard Law School, Harvard School of Public Health, Stanford Law School, and the Massachusettes Institute of Technology. In the summer other students will join us from Indiana Law School and other schools. They will work with Ghanaian University students on law and development issues-this winter healthcare issues.

Kenya - Center for Gender

Mali - Marcia Greenberg

Mozambique - Tuate

Namibia - Charles Josob

Nigeria - Sam Amadi

Rwanda - D. Teschner

Sierra Leone - Niall Johnston

South Africa - Ebrahim-Khalil Hassen

Ebrahim-Khalil Hassen works at the National Labor and Economic Development Institute (NALEDI). NALEDI is a research organization that has been established by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU). My area of research is on public service transformation. Ebrahim works on a number of areas including Peoples Budget Campaign, infrastructure delivery, public service labor relations and local government transformation."

South Africa - Ishmail Moss

Ishmail is a Colonel with the South African Defense Force. <bigmossish@mweb.co.za>

 

 

Tanzania - Gideon Mandesi

Tanzania - Dolased Tangany Ika

Tanzania - Hamudi Majamba

Uganda - Elizabeth Bakibinga

I am Elizabeth Bakibinga, a lawyer employed as Senior Legislative Counsel at the Parliament of Uganda. My responsibilities include: providing legal advice to the Speaker, Parliamentary Committees and  Members of Parliament; legal and legislative analysis; bill drafting; organizing and participating in professional development programs; supervision of student interns and participating in managing the Legislative Bill Tracking System on the Internet.

My areas of interest are: Law and Governance; Policy Analysis (especially for purposes of enhancing the capacity of Praliament to execute its mandate of law-making and oversight); Legislative Affairs and Legal and Legislative Drafting; Information and Communication Technology, Environmental and Natural Resources Management; Regional Integration; Sustainable Human Development; Democracy and Equal Opportunity Issues.

Zambia - Lucian N'Gandawe

Zambia - John Bosley

Zanzibar - Abdul-Hakim Issa

Zanzibar - Saleh Mubarek

Zimbabwe - Hazel Mubako