Status of official portals
This survey states what each official portal allowed us to collect, and what stood in the way. It concerns access to the source, never the content of the law.
27jurisdictions surveyed
9of which with no text recorded
| Jurisdiction | Authority | Texts recorded | Observed status | Texts page |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algérie | ARPCE | 0 | Active and harvestable — 6 sub-sections, pagination ?page=N, 49 pages | https://www.arpce.dz/fr/reg (opens in a new window) |
| Burkina Faso | ARCEP Burkina | 46 | Active — paginated document database | https://www.arcep.bf/reglementation-2/ (opens in a new window) |
| Bénin | ARCEP Bénin | 55 | Active — complete corpus online | https://arcep.bj/textes-de-references/ (opens in a new window) |
| Cameroun | ART Cameroun | 35 | Active — laws/decrees/orders/decisions sections | https://www.art.cm/fr/reglementation/lois (opens in a new window) |
| Centrafrique | ARCEP RCA | 1 | PORTAL UNDER RECONSTRUCTION — corpus not published | https://www.arcep.cf/ (opens in a new window) |
| Communauté économique des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest | 9 | No obstacle observed | Texts page not located | |
| Communauté économique et monétaire de l'Afrique centrale | 7 | No obstacle observed | Texts page not located | |
| Comores | ANRTIC | 0 | Active — regular structure, direct collection possible | https://www.anrtic.km/regulation/lois (opens in a new window) |
| Congo | ARPCE Congo | 3 | Active but rendered 100% in JavaScript — not harvestable as it stands | https://www.arpce.cg/decrets (opens in a new window) |
| Côte d'Ivoire | ARTCI | 12 | Active — consolidated PDF compilations; JS-based site | https://www.artci.ci/index.php/textes-de-reference/lois.html (opens in a new window) |
| Djibouti | ARMD | 0 | Authority confirmed (law 74/AN/20/8e L) — texts section to be located | Texts page not located |
| Gabon | ARCEP Gabon | 32 | Active — files in .rar/.zip rather than PDF | https://www.arcep.ga/pages/detail_reglementation/1 (opens in a new window) |
| Guinée | ARPT | 0 | Active — robots.txt unreachable via automated access, to be cleared via browser | Texts page not located |
| Guinée équatoriale | ORTEL | 26 | Active — well-structured Spanish-language corpus | https://ortelge.com/legislacion/leyes/ (opens in a new window) |
| Guinée-Bissau | ARN | 8 | Active — partial corpus, Portuguese-language | https://arn.gw/diplomas/ (opens in a new window) |
| Madagascar | ARTEC | 0 | Active — TLS chain not validated, same blocker as ARTP Senegal | https://www.artec.mg/lois/ (opens in a new window) |
| Mali | AMRTP | 34 | Active — download per record | https://amrtp.ml/en/download-category/laws/ (opens in a new window) |
| Maroc | ANRT | 0 | Active — robots.txt unreachable via automated access, to be cleared via browser | https://www.anrt.ma/reglementation/lois (opens in a new window) |
| Mauritanie | ARE | 0 | Active — multi-sector regulator, sector filtering required | https://www.are.mr/index.php/telecommunications-fr/textes-de-reference (opens in a new window) |
| Niger | ARCEP Niger | 22 | Active — paginated categories | https://arcep.ne/cat_doc/lois/ (opens in a new window) |
| RD Congo | ARPTC | 0 | Active and well structured — ARPTIC name mentioned by a third-party source, not confirmed by the authority | https://arptc.gouv.cd/regulation/ (opens in a new window) |
| Sénégal | ARTP | 6 | Active — TLS certificate not resolved by robots; browser access | https://artp.sn/votre-documentation (opens in a new window) |
| Tchad | ARCEP Tchad | 18 | Active — “Decisions” section empty | https://arcep.td/lois.html (opens in a new window) |
| Togo | ARCEP Togo | 80 | Active — most complete corpus in the region | https://arcep.tg/regulation/reglementation/ (opens in a new window) |
| Tunisie | INT | 0 | Active — 302 redirect loop, the site enforces HTTP | http://www.intt.tn/fr/txt_decisions.php (opens in a new window) |
| Union africaine | 1 | No obstacle observed | Texts page not located | |
| Union économique et monétaire ouest-africaine | 7 | No obstacle observed | Texts page not located |
An accessible portal is no guarantee that its corpus is complete, and an inaccessible portal does not mean that no text exists. This table reports what was observed on the cut-off date shown in the footer, and nothing beyond it.