Country Fact-sheets & Data Laws

The following African countries have laws on data protection. To date 36 out of 55 African counties have data protection laws and/or regulations. Click on the toggle to access the country Fact-sheets.

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• Algeria

• Angola

• Benin

• Botswana

• Burkina Faso

• Burundi

• Cameroon

• Cape Verde

• Chad

• Central African Republic

• Comoros

• Cote-d-ivoire

• Democratic Republic of Congo

• Djibouti

• Egypt

• Eritrea

• Eswatini

• Ethiopia

• Equatorial Guinea

• Gabon

• Gambia

• Ghana

• Guinea

• Guinea Bissau

• Kenya

• Lesotho

• Liberia

• Libya

• Madagascar

• Malawi

• Mali

• Mauritania

• Mauritius

• Mozambique

• Morocco

• Namibia

• Niger

• Nigeria

• Republic of Congo

• Rwanda

• Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic

• Sao Tome and Principe

• Senegal

• Seychelles

• Sierra Leone

• South Africa

• Somalia

• South Sudan

• Sudan

• Tanzania

• Togo

• Tunisia

• Uganda

• Zambia

• Zimbabwe

Countries with Pending Bills

Ethiopia Proclamation (Bill).pdf

Malawi .pdf

Namibia.pdf

Countries with No Data Protection Laws

• Burundi

• Cameroon

• Central African Republic

• Comoros

• Djibouti

• Eritrea

• Gambia

• Guinea-Bissau

• Liberia

• Libya

• Mozambique

• Sierra Leone

• Sudan

• South Sudan

• Western Sahara

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