Legislation

List of African countries with a dedicated data protection law :

1. Algeria : law

2. Angola : law

3. Benin : law

4. Botswana : law

5. Burkina Faso : law

6. Cape Verde : law

7. Chad : law n°007/PR/2015

8. Comoros : Inaccessible to the public

9. Democratic Republic of the Congo : law

10. Republic of the Congo : law

11. Egypt : law (in arabic)

12. Equatorial Guinea : law no. 1/2016

13. Eswatini : law

14. Gabon : law

15. Ghana : law

16. Guinea : law

17. Ivory Coast : law

18. Kenya : law | Reg 2021

19. Lesotho : law

20. Madagascar : law

21. Mali : law | Update (2017)

22. Mauritania : law

23. Mauritius : law

24. Morocco : law

25. Niger : law

26. Nigeria : law

27. Rwanda : law

28. São Tomé and Príncipe : law

29. Senegal : law

30. Seychelles : law

31. Somalia : law

32. South Africa : law

33. Tanzania : law

34. Togo : law

35. Tunisia: law

36. Uganda : law | Reg(2021)

37. Zambia : law

38. Zimbabwe : law | Reg(2022)

– Acte additionnel de la CEDEAO : law

– African Union Convention on Cyber Security and Personal Data Protection : law

List of African countries with a national strategy for the adoption of artificial intelligence :

1. Benin : strategy

2. Egypt : strategy

3. Mauritius : strategy

4. Uganda : strategy

5. Rwanda : strategy

6. Senegal : strategy

7. Sierra Leone : strategy