African Union Malabo Convention
What is African Union Malabo Convention?
The African Union Convention on Cyber Security and Personal Data Protection (Malabo Convention, 2014) is the first continental framework addressing cybersecurity and data protection in Africa. It establishes obligations for AU member states in electronic commerce, personal data protection, cybersecurity, and cybercrime. It comprises 28 controls organised across 1 domains, and applies in Africa (AU).
How African Union Malabo Convention maps to other frameworks
All 28 controls, each one mapped to the equivalent requirement in other standards, with the evidence that carries across and the mappings that were judged and rejected shown alongside. No account needed to look.
See the control mappings →The 1 domains African Union Malabo Convention groups its controls into
Frameworks that share controls with African Union Malabo Convention
Each of these has at least one control mapped to a control in African Union Malabo Convention. The number is how many African Union Malabo Convention controls are shared, counted from the mapping graph.
Implementation guides for frameworks that overlap African Union Malabo Convention
Where African Union Malabo Convention overlaps with the standards you already hold
Where to get trained on African Union Malabo Convention
One course in the catalogue covers African Union Malabo Convention directly. Each is self-paced, includes the downloadable toolkit and the implementation playbook, and carries a certificate of completion.
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What an auditor will ask you for
All 28 African Union Malabo Convention controls, each with what it requires, the artefacts an auditor will ask you for, and where it commonly fails. Free to read, nothing to fill in.
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Questions people ask about African Union Malabo Convention
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Query African Union Malabo Convention programmatically
African Union Malabo Convention, its 28 controls and every mapping into other standards are available over a REST endpoint and an MCP server, so an agent can read them directly. The free tier is 10 calls a day and needs no signup.
African Union Malabo Convention API reference and MCP config →What African Union Malabo Convention requires, control by control
Each page carries the requirement text for one African Union Malabo Convention control and what an assessor expects to see as evidence.
- MALABO-ART13-P1 Principle of Consent and Legitimacy
- MALABO-ART13-P2 Principle of Lawfulness and Fairness
- MALABO-ART13-P3 Principle of Purpose, Relevance and Storage Limitation
- MALABO-ART13-P4 Principle of Accuracy
- MALABO-ART13-P5 Principle of Transparency
- MALABO-ART13-P6 Principle of Confidentiality and Security
- MALABO-ART14 Sensitive Data and Specific Processing
- MALABO-ART16 Data Subject Right to Information
- MALABO-ART17 Data Subject Right of Access
- MALABO-ART18 Data Subject Right to Object
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