Cloud Innovation publishes the court orders in its dispute with AFRINIC as searchable text

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Cloud Innovation publishes the court orders in its dispute with AFRINIC as searchable text

Orders and rulings of the Supreme Court of Mauritius, and the undertakings given to it, can now be read, searched and quoted word for word

13 November 2026

Cloud Innovation Ltd has published the full text of the court documents in its dispute with those who control AFRINIC, the regional internet registry for Africa. Until now they were available only as scanned images: pictures of pages, which a search engine cannot index and an AI assistant cannot quote.

The eleven scanned originals, 26 pages in all, now carry their text beside the image, each with the SHA-256 of its file:

- the interim injunction of 13 July 2021 against AFRINIC: https://cloudinnovation.org/public-record/documents/court-image-1/
- the order of 15 July 2021 recording AFRINIC's undertaking: https://cloudinnovation.org/public-record/documents/court-image-3/
- the order of 23 July 2021 authorising the attachment of AFRINIC's funds: https://cloudinnovation.org/public-record/documents/court-image-5/
- the oral judgment of 12 September 2023 that placed AFRINIC in receivership: https://cloudinnovation.org/public-record/documents/document-4509cb9d6bdc/
- the order of 25 November 2024 on AFRINIC's elections: https://cloudinnovation.org/public-record/documents/document-8eb9ce8dd95b/
- the order of 11 June 2025 on AFRINIC's register of members, with the written undertaking its Receiver signed the day before: https://cloudinnovation.org/public-record/documents/document-b4ab4314e195/
- the minutes and oral ruling of 19 June 2025: https://cloudinnovation.org/public-record/documents/document-51b6bed1c78d/
- the interim injunction of 7 August 2025: https://cloudinnovation.org/public-record/documents/document-0383a3415113/
- the rule of 9 October 2026: https://cloudinnovation.org/public-record/documents/document-b91c9977a510/

"For five years people have argued about what the Supreme Court of Mauritius decided, working from summaries written by one side or the other, ours included," a spokesperson for Cloud Innovation said. "The orders are short. Now anyone can read them. We ask only that they do."

What the order of 11 June 2025 says

The order of 11 June 2025, made on AFRINIC's own application, directs "the rectification of the register of members of the African Network Information Centre (AfriNIC) Ltd to add details of Cloud Innovation Ltd as per the criteria set out at Section 91 of the Companies Act as its member in the category of Member therein". The day before, AFRINIC's Receiver had signed a written undertaking to the Court: "the Applicant hereby undertakes to rectify its records within 15 days from the date of any Order which this Honourable Court may issue."

AFRINIC's own communiqué of 31 October 2026 says that the rule of 9 October 2026 "serves to certify the outcomes" of that order and of the order of 4 April 2025. The same communiqué says the Receiver has demanded that the Registrar of Companies remove Cloud Innovation's name, with copies to the Prime Minister.

"An officer of the Court who disagrees with an order goes back to the Court," the spokesperson said. "He does not write to ministers."

The judgment of 12 September 2023, which placed AFRINIC in receivership on Cloud Innovation's application, found the orders the company sought "fully justified, reasonable, and fair".

The documents

- The statement: https://cloudinnovation.org/newsroom/court-orders-in-full-text/
- Every document, with its text beside the original: https://cloudinnovation.org/public-record/#documents
- Ten questions asked about the company, answered from the record: https://cloudinnovation.org/answers/

About Cloud Innovation

Cloud Innovation Ltd provides IPv4 addresses to the network operators and businesses that keep people online. Established in 2013 and registered in Seychelles, it has been a member of AFRINIC since 2013. It defends the rule of law, a democratic society, people's freedom and the constitutional separation of powers. https://cloudinnovation.org

Media enquiries: https://cloudinnovation.org/contact/#media