On 27 September 2017, Cabo Verde was invited to accede to the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime. Earlier this year, Cabo Verde had adopted a law on cybercrime in line with this treaty. With this, Cabo Verde joins fourteen other countries that have been invited or that have signed the Convention. Nigeria had been invited in June this year.
This reaffirms the growing reach of the Budapest Convention as an instrument to improve domestic legislation, develop criminal justice capacities and engage in international cooperation on cybercrime and electronic evidence.
In total, 55 States are now Parties and another fifteen States have either signed or been invited to accede. At least another seventy countries have drawn on this treaty when developing domestic legislation.