Online safety & content laws in Côte d'Ivoire (2026)

Law n° 2013-451 of 19 June 2013 criminalises offences against the confidentiality, integrity and availability of systems, child sexual abuse material (Articles 15–18), fraud, and sets out ISP responsibilities and digital-evidence procedures.

Law n° 2023-593 of 7 June 2023 stiffened penalties for CSAM (up to 6 years / 40 million FCFA), created new offences for dissemination of hateful or discriminatory content via information systems (1–20 years imprisonment depending on severity), and strengthened intellectual-property enforcement online.

Ordinance n° 2024-950 of 30 October 2024 (ratified by National Assembly on 24 April 2025) modernises the digital security framework and transfers network-security, system-audit, and certification powers from ARTCI to the specialist ANSSI (Agence Nationale de la Sécurité des Systèmes d'Information).

Law n° 2024-352 of 6 June 2024 on electronic communications requires any public internet-access provider to obtain an individual licence or general authorisation from ARTCI before operating, tightening oversight of the access layer.

ARTCI is the primary telecom/ICT regulator and personal-data protection authority; ANSSI (operationalised under the 2021–2025 National Cybersecurity Strategy) handles information-system security; the Plateforme de Lutte contre la Cybercriminalité (PLCC), created 2011, conducts cybercrime investigations and public awareness campaigns.

ARTCI itself has acknowledged that existing frameworks lack specificity on digital harassment, misinformation, and platform-level content moderation. No comprehensive platform-liability regime or statutory age-verification requirement for social media has been enacted as of May 2026; the government's #EnligneTousResponsables campaign (launched June 2024) addresses awareness rather than enforceable platform obligations.