Gazettes.Africa and Laws.Africa: the continent's official gazettes, scanned and searchable

Gazettes.Africa is a free collection of official government gazettes from across Africa, and Laws.Africa, a non-profit that works with African governments to publish legislation and cases online for free, runs it together with AfricanLII. The collection spans 22 jurisdictions as well as the East African Community and ECOWAS, and the gazettes are PDFs you can search by country and date. A gazette is where a new law, notice or appointment first appears officially, so having them online helps you find the original instead of relying on a news summary. Coverage varies a lot from country to country, so check the dates available for the country you need.

Citation: 'Gazettes.Africa' (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Eagle-i directory) https://resources.ials.sas.ac.uk/node/762856; 'Laws.Africa' (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Eagle-i directory) https://resources.ials.sas.ac.uk/eagle-i-country-origin/za both accessed 18 October 2026. The primary addresses are https://gazettes.africa/ and https://laws.africa/.