Republic of the Congo

National jurisdiction · as of 2026-09-22

The Republic of the Congo has no adult-content age-verification statute, social-media minor-access law, app-store age-verification requirement, or standalone age-appropriate design code.

Loi n°4-2010 du 14 juin 2010 portant protection de l'enfant en République du Congo, the country's general child-protection statute, defines a child as any person under eighteen at its opening article and, at article 38, prohibits media from disseminating information that could compromise a child's development and requires media to protect the child against pornography, harmful information, and violent scenes disseminated through video clubs, internet sites, advertising, and other documents.

That duty runs to media as a class rather than to a single named platform category, and the law states no age-verification mechanism, enforcement body, or penalty specific to it. Article 66 of the same law separately prohibits producing, distributing, importing, offering, selling, or possessing material depicting a child in explicit or simulated sexual activity, as a general criminal prohibition rather than a gating or access-control duty addressed to a private service.

Loi n°27-2020 du 5 juin 2020 portant lutte contre la cybercriminalité, the country's computer-misuse statute (see the scraping topic for this jurisdiction's access and interference provisions), criminalises the same conduct when committed through an information system at its chapter on child pornography, punishing production, distribution, procurement, or possession of child sexual abuse material by five to ten years' imprisonment.

The same law separately requires every provider of a public electronic-communication service to maintain an accessible mechanism for reporting illicit content, including child pornography, and to inform the competent authorities promptly, on pain of six months to one year's imprisonment and a fine. That reporting duty spans several categories of illicit content rather than addressing age verification or age-appropriate design specifically.

The Sécrétariat Général du Gouvernement's list of eighteen consolidated codes in force names no digital or child-online-protection code, and its title-indexed register of enacted laws, searched under the terms enfant, mineur, réseaux sociaux, and numérique, returns no statute addressing digital age verification, social-media minor access, or app-store age controls beyond Loi n°4-2010 itself and unrelated measures such as tobacco-sales restrictions to minors and juvenile-detention-centre decrees.