Cybersecurity regulation in Chad (2026)

Law No. 009/PR/2015 of 10 February 2015 on Cybersecurity and the Fight against Cybercrime was Chad's original unified statute, covering content offences (fraud, forgery, child pornography) and basic security obligations; its provisions were codified into the 2017 Criminal Code.

Three presidential ordinances dated 31 August 2022 replaced the single 2015 law: Ord. 007/PCMT/2022 (cybercrime and cyber defence), Ord. 008/PCMT/2022 (cybersecurity), and Ord. 009/PCMT/2022 (reforming ANSICE). The National Transition Council ratified all three in December 2022.

ANSICE (Agence Nationale de Sécurité Informatique et de Certification Électronique), established by Law No. 006/PR/2015 and reformed by Ord. 009/2022, sits under the Presidency and is responsible for national information-systems security policy, e-certification, and coordinating responses to cyber threats against government and critical infrastructure.

As of 2025, Chadian law imposes no mandatory breach-notification or incident-reporting obligation on private operators; ANSICE coordinates government-system incident response but no formal duty to notify regulators or affected individuals is prescribed by statute.

Law No. 014/PR/2014 on Electronic Communications governs network operators (regulated by ARCEP), Law No. 007/PR/2015 on Personal Data Protection imposes data-security obligations, and Law No. 008/PR/2015 on e-Transactions covers electronic signatures — together forming a broader digital-governance stack.

Chad launched work on a National Cybersecurity Strategy in December 2022 in partnership with the ITU. A 34-member committee has been tasked with drafting a consolidated Code du Numérique to replace the fragmented 2014–2015 digital laws, reflecting acknowledgement by the government that existing texts are outdated.