On Legal and Regulatory Environment of Large-scale Infrastructure Projects with Foreign Participation in African Countries (on the Example of the Lobito Transportation Corridor)

The World leading powers and inter-state associations strive to intensify cooperation with African countries in the area of extraction and transportation of critical raw materials. Simultaneously, states of the continent are interested in the implementation of large-scale infrastructure development projects on their territory. In this context, approaches of the parties towards shaping legal and regulatory environment of such projects are of interest. In the case of the Lobito Corridor, this includes a number of agreements and memoranda on the extraction and transportation of critical minerals, creation of value chains, working arrangements between the parties, agency services, and investment facilitation. Legal aspects of the implementation of large-scale infrastructure projects on the continent with participation of the USA and the EU deserves analysis from theoretical and practical points of view, including for their possible account by the Russian Federation in carrying on trade with the states of the continent.

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