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Parallel Enforcement at the Digital Gateway, explained
Meta faces abuse of dominance investigations in both the EU and COMESA over 2025 changes to its WhatsApp Business terms, which shut third-party AI providers out of the platform's API while sparing Meta's own AI. This explainer compares the two cases: why Brussels chose Article 102 over the Digital Markets Act, what makes COMESA's case a first, and where the two legal regimes diverge.
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Parallel Enforcement at the Digital Gateway, explained
Meta faces abuse of dominance investigations in both the EU and COMESA over 2025 changes to its WhatsApp Business terms, which shut third-party AI providers out of the platform's API while sparing Meta's own AI. This explainer compares the two cases: why Brussels chose Article 102 over the Digital Markets Act, what makes COMESA's case a first, and where the two legal regimes diverge.
5:12AfricaEuropeRegulatory PolicyGreen Cartels, Brown Costs, explained
In April 2026 Nigeria's FCCPC published draft guidance that, like the UK's CMA, counts the benefits of climate agreements between competitors for "Nigerian consumers as a whole", not only for buyers in the affected market. This explainer follows the brief's argument that the wider class assumes the people paying the green premium are the people receiving the benefit, an assumption that fails in African markets for essentials such as fertiliser and cooking fuel.
5:46AfricaMerger ControlOverlapping Jurisdictions, explained
A merger touching several African countries can trigger national filings, two regional regimes that each claim to be the only one-stop shop (COMESA and the EAC), and a continental AfCFTA layer that is not yet in force. This explainer maps the three layers, what the overlap costs a deal, and the brief's three proposals for making them work together.
5:45GlobalRegulatory PolicyThe Bad Behaviour Rule Book, explained
In August 2024 the European Commission published draft guidelines on abuse of dominance that move away from proving actual effects towards legal presumptions. This explainer covers what the draft would change, why Brussels moved, and why the brief argues that African competition authorities should not copy it wholesale.
1:13AfricaMarket StudiesAfrican competition enforcement in numbers
6,922 decisions from 22 authorities, 1999 to 2026: where they come from, what happens to a matter, what kind of matters they are, and how fast the record is growing. Every figure is from the Competition Brief decisions database.