§ 04 · REPORTS

Flagship research

Long-form reports built on the Research Hub datasets. Every figure is generated by a published analysis script; every enforcement fact links to its source.

Kenya · July 2026

The ODPC Record: How Kenya Enforces Data Protection

The deepest public enforcement record in Africa, read end to end: 303 verified records, the complaint pipeline, the compensation jurisprudence, the violation taxonomy, and what a Kenyan controller should actually fear.

4.0% of filed complaints reach the public record

Publishing 2 August 2026

July 2026

54-state scorecard · July 2026

Enforcement in the Dark: Who Publishes, Who Hides

Africa's publication gap, measured: 44 laws in force, 23 regulators enforcing, 17 publishing, and 6 countries sanctioning controllers with no public record at all.

6 countries enforce with no public record

Publishing 16 August 2026

July 2026

Continental flagship · July 2026

The State of African Data Protection Enforcement, H1 2026

The first systematic, data-backed account of the continent's enforcement activity: 595 verified records across 10 jurisdictions, medians before means, jurisdiction deep-dives and the H2 2026 outlook.

595 verified enforcement records

Publishing 20 September 2026

July 2026

Transfer matrix · July 2026

The Cross-Border Transfer Rulebook

How to move personal data out of 44 African jurisdictions, read against the primary statutes: adequacy, safeguards, consent, regulator authorisation and the localisation traps, with 33 of 44 verified regimes needing a regulator's sign-off.

33 regimes require regulator sign-off

Publishing 6 September 2026

July 2026

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