Droit-Afrique, a legal publisher specializing in Francophone Africa, has entered into a strategic licensing and publishing partnership with Afriwise, a provider of digital legal intelligence solutions for Africa.

This collaboration will significantly enhance access to Francophone African legal and regulatory materials, making them more widely available to businesses, legal professionals, and regulatory experts across the continent and beyond.

As part of this agreement, Afriwise integrates Droit-Afrique’s extensive legal database into its advanced platform, ensuring users can seamlessly navigate and analyse laws, regulations and administrative documents from 19 Francophone African countries.

This partnership will empower legal professionals with authoritative, up-to-date content, while also reinforcing Droit-Afrique’s mission of making legal knowledge more accessible and actionable.
"We are delighted to partner with Afriwise to ensure that our Francophone Africa’s legal and regulatory materials reach a broader audience in a highly structured and searchable format," said GrégoireHéber-Suffrin, founder and director of Droit-Afrique.

"This collaboration will provide an innovative, AI-powered solution that enhances legal research, compliance monitoring, and risk management across the continent."

Through Afriwise’s cutting-edge platform, Droit-Afrique’s legal content will be fully integrated with Afriwise’s interactive tools and smart search capabilities, offering a seamless and
enriched user experience for corporate legal teams, law firms, and compliance professionals. Moreover, Afriwise makes English translations available of all legal texts.

"This partnership underscores our commitment to delivering the most comprehensive legal intelligence platform for Africa," said Steven De Backer, Founder and CEO of Afriwise.

"By bringing Droit-Afrique’s trusted legal content into our ecosystem, we are making legal research in Francophone Africa more efficient and insightful than ever before."

The Droit-Afrique collection will be available to Afriwise subscribers as part of an expanded offering that strengthens its position as Africa’s most extensive legal intelligence platform,
covering over 40 countries in Africa.

The integration will provide businesses and legal professionals with a single source for tracking legal developments, managing compliance, and accessing expert legal insights. This partnership marks a major milestone in centralised and integrated legal research for Africa, expanding access to high-quality, structured legal content and digital tools that streamline research, compliance, and risk management across Francophone Africa.