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Larus Cloud Service Limited’s requested voice disappeared when the host case ended
Two short orders from the Supreme Court of Mauritius show how a party can have serious commercial or operational reasons to care about a corporate dispute without acquiring an automatic right to enter it. Larus Cloud Service Limited sought to intervene in a case brought by former…
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RIPE NCC puts routing intent on the agenda with a live IRR webinar
RIPE NCC’s 13 August Internet Routing Registry Webinar makes a small but consequential point for network operations: an intended route is useful only when other networks can inspect and turn it into a decision.
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The AFRINIC Election Injunction That Lasted 497 Days
Larus Cloud obtained a court restraint over a Board election in May 2022. By the time the order was discharged in September 2023, the election problem had passed into a different legal structure, making the injunction's long, little-explained lifespan the more important…
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The Doorway and the Dormant File: Eddy Kayihura’s Section 136 Application
When a former chief executive’s court application concerning AFRINIC was set aside, the decisive fact was not his title, his history at the registry or a judicial answer to the corporate dispute. It was that the file had remained idle. The short order shows why the distinction…
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The Motion to Hold AFRINIC Still Without Owning the Numbers
On 7 March 2023, Cloud Innovation Ltd asked the Supreme Court of Mauritius to stop AFRINIC from changing its corporate shape and to appoint the Official Receiver to preserve its assets and business value. The application in `SC/COM/MOT/000156/2023` was a disputed request under…
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When the Registry Met Ordinary Law: Larus Cloud’s 2023 Injunction Against AFRINIC
On 31 January 2023, a Mauritian judge temporarily stopped AFRINIC and Executive Services Limited from giving effect to a written directors’ resolution touching six of the registry’s most consequential corporate controls. The order did not settle the merits or hand Larus Cloud…
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A Plaint Cannot Live on Filing Alone
For nearly six months, an election-related court file sat still. Crystal Web (Pty) Ltd had sued African Network Information Centre (AfriNIC) Ltd and four others in `SC/COM/PWS/000596/2022`, but the Supreme Court of Mauritius recorded that the matter had remained idle on the…
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The Case That Went Quiet Before It Could Become a Rule
Crystal Web asked the Supreme Court of Mauritius to stay `SC/COM/MOT/000500/2022` until it obtained leave to intervene. Its linked application, `SC/COM/WRT/000509/2022`, then sat idle on the e-filing system from 21 October 2022. After a circular dated 7 February 2023 drew no…
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The Credential That Joined AFRINIC's Ballot to Its Technical Ledger
AFRINIC's warning about a false Board election request exposed a problem larger than the message itself: a single member credential stood close to votes, corporate records and several kinds of Internet resource administration that ought to answer to different grants of authority.
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Who Gets to Choose? The Boundary in the NRO’s AFRINIC Re-engagement Proposal
On 26 March 2023, the Number Resource Organization asked ICANN to help re-engage the AFRINIC community around a fair and transparent Board election with active membership and community involvement. That was a constructive destination for a registry in need of functioning…
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The Injunction That Lost Its Forum: Seychelles, AFRINIC and the Limits of Cross-Border Relief
An order protecting a registry member’s position can look operationally decisive while resting on a procedural foundation that remains contestable. In *Cloud Innovation Ltd v African Network Information Centre Ltd*, the Supreme Court of Seychelles removed its own interim…
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The Noun That Held the Procedure Together
On 21 June 2022, AFRINIC’s sixth draft of its working-group guidelines replaced the CEO with the Appeal Committee as the actor whose decision would end one internal appeal. The change was only a few words long. It nevertheless exposed the real subject of the proposal: not…
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Who Held the Proposal After Consensus? AFRINIC’s Unfinished Withdrawal Rule
On 28 July 2022, AFRINIC recorded consensus, a report sent to its Board, and an author’s withdrawal against the same proposal. The record captures a procedural collision but does not settle it. What it reveals is a missing transfer point between personal authorship, collective…
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When Private Coordination Looks Upward: The NRO’s Mauritius Appeal
On 12 July 2022, the Number Resource Organization published a letter asking two Mauritian officials to attend to pressures on AFRINIC after court orders had affected the registry’s bank access and director election. The appeal came from four executives of AFRINIC’s peer…
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AFRINIC Did Not Oppose the Motion—and the Court Still Set It Aside
Silvio Cabral Almada came to court through a narrow corporate-rescue provision, and AFRINIC said it did not entity. Yet an older order already occupied the ground on which the new request would have operated. The result shows why registry prominence, corporate standing, judicial…
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The Empty Office: When AFRINIC’s Litigation Mandate Lost Its Instruction Point
On 4 November 2022, Eddy Kayihura ceased to be AFRINIC’s chief executive officer. The private company remained, its disputes remained and its lawyers remained available, but the human being whom an earlier Board resolution had authorised to instruct those lawyers no longer…
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NRO put US$250,000 behind AFRINIC’s legal defence. The public ledger stops before the case
AFRINIC’s newly published audit lets readers match a US$250,000 line of 2022 income to an NRO Executive Council resolution adopted that February. The two records establish material support. They still do not identify the paying RIRs, funded matter, lawyers, invoices, conditions…
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AFRINIC staff proposed an emergency Board exception inside a community-continuity draft
The 21 June impact assessment did not merely flag drafting defects. It recommended residual Board power whose urgent branch would survive absent consultation—forcing AFRINIC’s policy community to decide who can interrupt the independence the draft promises.
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AFRINIC’s audit says litigation may be material—and leaves the probability bridge off the page
Note 22 says an outflow was not probable, so AFRINIC recognised no provision and considered no contingent-liability disclosure necessary. The unmodified auditor’s report gives that accounting conclusion real weight, but it does not validate every legal instruction, fee or…
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AFRINIC’s audited Note 23 calls the election “successfully concluded”. That is not an authority certificate
AFRINIC’s new audit records a Board election, court orders and a Receiver still awaiting discharge. The financial statements carry real accounting assurance, but the purported Board and its supporters still need to show the executable source and present status of each governance…
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