Archive · Guidance & policy
All 11 archive entries filed under guidance & policy, most recent first.
The NDPC executed two memoranda of understanding on 8 May 2026: one with the Bureau of Public Procurement, one with the Nigeria Governors' Forum.
The UK Information Commissioner's Office published guidance on 6 May 2026 to help public authorities handle Freedom of Information requests involving or generated by AI systems, focused on the rising volume of AI-generated requests and how existing FOI principles apply to them.
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.
On 16 April 2026 the NDPC issued a data protection advisory directing all controllers and processors, government ministries included, to strengthen technical and organisational measures against escalating cyber threats: certified data protection officers, regular data protection impact assessments, multi-factor authentication and NDPA 2023-grade security controls.
The FSCA published a supervisory update on crypto asset service provider licensing on 15 April 2026, reporting 30 supervisory inspections of CASPs conducted between April 2025 and March 2026 under the Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act.
The website of Senegal's Commission des Données Personnelles returned on 12 April 2026 after an outage that began on 26 February, 45 days during which the authority had no working web presence.
The Central Bank of Nigeria inaugurated a Payments Service Providers Committee in Lagos on 2 April 2026, seating the CBN, commercial banks, mobile money operators and fintechs at one table, with a new Payments System Vision promised within a month.
CMA Rwanda has set out a regulatory approach to the tokenisation of financial assets, presented at the Inclusive FinTech Forum in Kigali in early 2026: securities tokenisation, real-world asset tokenisation and tokenised funds, treated under the existing Capital Markets Act rather than a new statute.
On 1 March 2026 the National Bank of Ethiopia declared all birr-paired peer-to-peer cryptocurrency transactions illegal unless explicitly authorised, citing foreign exchange manipulation, fraud and the absence of AML safeguards.
At the end of February 2026 the BCEAO circulated a questionnaire to fintech operators across the eight-state UEMOA zone on possible uses of cryptocurrencies in the regional financial system, reported by Jeune Afrique on 9 March.
Proclamation 1321/2024 carries penalties of up to 4% of turnover and prison terms, yet two years after publication in the Federal Negarit Gazette the ECA has issued none of its four planned implementing directives, opened no registration portal and brought no enforcement action that we could find.
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