Mrs. Maria Luisa Trancoso, the Head of Governance of the EU Delegation in Ghana
Cabinet in November 2017 approved Ghana’s accession to the Budapest Convention on
Cybercrime which aims at harmonising national laws on e-crime, improving investigative
techniques and increasing cooperation among nations to foster the protection of countries against
cybercrime.
Ghana is one of the few African countries and presumably, the first in West Africa that has signed
the treaty and has keenly taken steps to ratify the treaty pursuant to cabinet’s decision.
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