The workshop "Improving international cooperation on cybercrime and electronic evidence in West Africa" aims to provide a set of regional and country-specific recommendations with regard to regional and international cooperation on cybercrime and electronic evidence.
Regional instruments are already available to countries of West Africa, however, they do not comprise provisions for international cooperation. For this reason, Senegal and some other States of West Africa, have made use of the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime when preparing domestic legislation. Senegal has been invited to accede to this treaty and is about to become a Party. Other States of West Africa are considering to follow this path.
Against this background, the workshops seeks to analyse core problems that States of the region encounter in international cooperation on cybercrime and electronic evidence and to identify solutions to render police-to-police cooperation and mutual legal assistance more efficient.
50 delegates from 9 countries of West Africa (Benin, Cape Verde, Côte-d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo), together with representatives of ECOWAS, the African Union Commission, the European Union and Council of Europe experts have joined the workshop currently taking place in Dakar, Senegal, between 9 and 11 May 2016.
