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<div>I am taking the liberty of forwarding this email from another list, the author reading in copy.</div>
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<div>On Jul 19, 2025 at 00:30 +0200, Bill Woodcock via Internet-history <<a href="mailto:internet-history@elists.isoc.org">internet-history@elists.isoc.org</a>>, wrote:<br />
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<div>On Jul 19, 2025, at 00:16, Karl Auerbach via Internet-history <internet-history@elists.isoc.org> wrote:<br />
I mention this in the context of the ongoing troubles with the African RIR, Afrinic.<br />
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<div>…which have been brought up several times recently. There’s been a development today, probably positive.<br />
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-Bill<br />
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THE GOVERNMENT GAZETTE OF MAURITIUS<br />
No. 59 – Port Louis : Friday 18 July 2025 – Rs. 25.00<br />
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DECLARED COMPANY<br />
NOTICE UNDER SECTION 230 OF THE COMPANIES ACT<br />
WHEREAS African Network Information Centre (AfriNIC) Ltd (in receivership) (the “Company”) is a<br />
company limited by guarantee incorporated and based in Mauritius;<br />
WHEREAS the Company is the designated Regional Internet Registry for the African continent;<br />
WHEREAS I am reliably informed that the Company has been the object of a spate of litigation, leading<br />
to it being placed in receivership in or about 2024;<br />
WHEREAS I have taken cognizance of a Notice in the press dated 10 July 2025, whereby the Company<br />
is purportedly being the object of a compulsory winding-up petition;<br />
WHEREAS I am advised that the process leading to the Company being placed in receivership is legally<br />
questionable;<br />
WHEREAS I am informed that the 2 receivers successively appointed have failed to effectively<br />
discharge their mission of conducting the election of a Board for the Company within timeframes imparted<br />
by the Courts;<br />
WHEREAS I am informed that the result of the Company being placed in receivership has been<br />
that no new internet protocol address was able to be issued to the whole of the African continent since<br />
November 2024;2234 The Mauritius Government Gazette<br />
WHEREAS this state of affairs has caused, and is continuing to cause, serious reputational damage to<br />
Mauritius as a jurisdiction internationally;<br />
WHEREAS based on the above, I am satisfied that pursuant to section 230(b) of the Companies Act, it<br />
is expedient, in the public interest, that the affairs of the Company be investigated forthwith,<br />
NOW THEREFORE, in virtue of section 230 of the Companies Act, I hereby designate the Company to<br />
be a declared company.<br />
I ALSO ENJOIN the Registrar of Companies, pursuant to her powers under section 231(1) of the<br />
Companies Act to immediately require a suitably-qualified inspector to investigate the affairs of the<br />
Company and to make a report on his investigation in such form and manner as the Registrar may direct.<br />
DR. N. RAMGOOLAM, G.C.S.K., F.R.C.P.<br />
Prime Minister, Minister of Defence, Home Affairs and<br />
External Communications, Minister of Finance,<br />
Minister for Rodrigues and Outer Islands<br />
18 July 2025.<br />
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