Region: Africa & Middle East

Nine fuel companies have agreed to pay €166 million and committed not to manipulate prices at petrol stations to close a cartel investigation in Morocco.

24 November 2023

South Africa’s Competition Tribunal has rejected behavioural, structural and public interest remedies from AkzoNobel as part of a decision confirming the prohibition of its acquisition of Kansai Paint’s African business.

22 November 2023

South Africa’s Competition Tribunal has approved a €2.1 million settlement agreement between Standard Chartered Bank and the Competition Commission after the former confessed to rigging foreign exchange rates.

15 November 2023

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06 November 2023

A company with no business operations in Botswana has agreed not to enter into exclusive agreements with scrap metal suppliers to secure approval for its acquisition of a defunct steel plant.

01 November 2023

Apple and Booking.com have lodged appeals against remedies imposed by South Africa's competition watchdog following its landmark online platforms market inquiry.

20 October 2023

Forcing companies to file cross-border transactions simultaneously will help enforcers to cooperate in merger reviews, a top official at South Africa’s competition watchdog has said.

18 October 2023

South Africa’s sole liquid cyanide producer and a Czech rival have failed in their bid to overturn the antitrust authority’s merger prohibition.

13 October 2023

Enforcers in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa plan to coordinate antitrust investigations in the digital economy, a commissioner at Brazil’s competition authority has said.

13 October 2023

Supply chain problems linked to Israel’s current security crisis justify a more flexible approach to antitrust enforcement, the head of its competition authority has said.

12 October 2023