Tanzania’s reforms show that the claim that African states should regard ISDS mechanism as the preferred method for resolving investment disputes is not only very contested, but that there are legitimate grounds for those contestations.
Après plusieurs mois à menacer de lancer des procédures d’arbitrage contre l’Etat tanzanien pour annulation de leurs permis miniers, trois sociétés ont décidé de concrétiser leur action.
Australian mining company Indiana Resources has become the second company in a week to declare a dispute with the Tanzanian government over repossessed retention licences.
Civil society groups are now calling on governments to reform their investor state dispute settlement because “it is being unfairly used by investors to sue states for millions of dollars.”