AI regulation in Mozambique (2026)

The Council of Ministers established the CNIA by decree in March 2025 (operative April 2025). It is chaired by the ICT Minister, reports directly to the Council of Ministers, and is mandated to advise on AI ethics, regulation, education, cybersecurity, and workforce impacts.

INTIC launched the drafting of a National AI Strategy in December 2025 with UNESCO technical support. A multisectoral committee spanning government, private sector, academia, and civil society is steering the process, with alignment to the African Union's Agenda 2063 and UNESCO's 2021 AI Ethics Recommendation.

Mozambique participated in UNESCO's Readiness Assessment Methodology (RAM) pilot across Southern Africa, producing a national AI readiness report that tests adequacy of existing laws, technical capacities, and alignment with UNESCO's Ethics of AI Recommendation — forming the evidence base for the emerging strategy.

Mozambique also created the ATDI (Agência de Transformação Digital e Inovação) in early 2026 to coordinate the country's digital modernisation, operating under the Ministry of Communications and Digital Transformation. The ATDI complements the CNIA by providing institutional capacity for implementation.

No enacted AI law or sector-specific AI rules exist. The Electronic Transactions Law (2017) and a draft Cybersecurity Bill are the closest relevant instruments, but both predate AI-specific governance thinking. Data governance policy is also at a formative draft stage as of April 2025.

As a UNESCO member state, Mozambique is formally covered by the 2021 UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of AI — the only binding-equivalent international instrument applicable — though domestic implementing measures have not yet been enacted.