Nigeria hosts regulators from nine African countries for a cross-border enforcement exchange

The NDPC hosted a two-day peer exchange in Abuja on 4 and 5 May 2026, bringing data protection regulators from nine African countries and multilateral institutions together to discuss cross-border enforcement coordination.

Continental coordination among regulators has been discussed for years, but this meeting was distinguished by the enforcement position of the host: Nigeria convened the exchange while the Temu investigation, the CAC probe and the April advisory were all active, which made the session a working exchange of live case strategies rather than a general discussion.

For organisations operating across multiple African jurisdictions, this points toward synchronised regulatory scrutiny, where an enforcement approach tested by one authority is more likely to be applied by its neighbours. Cross-border data practices premised on regulators operating independently of each other no longer hold.