{"id":278189,"date":"2026-06-22T04:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T08:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/22\/parliament-approves-bill-establishing-national-cybersecurity-agency-dawan-africa\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T04:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T08:25:09","slug":"parliament-approves-bill-establishing-national-cybersecurity-agency-dawan-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/22\/parliament-approves-bill-establishing-national-cybersecurity-agency-dawan-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliament Approves Bill Establishing National Cybersecurity Agency | Dawan Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawan.africa\/news\/parliament-approves-bill-establishing-national-cybersecurity-agency\">Parliament Approves Bill Establishing National Cybersecurity Agency | Dawan Africa<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawan.africa\/news\/parliament-approves-bill-establishing-national-cybersecurity-agency\">https:\/\/www.dawan.africa\/news\/parliament-approves-bill-establishing-national-cybersecurity-agency<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-22 04:15:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.dawan.africa\">www.dawan.africa<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"relative group\"><strong>Kenya, 22 June 2026<\/strong> &#8211; Parliament has approved the Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes (Amendment) Bill, paving the way for the establishment of the National Cybersecurity Agency (NCSA) to strengthen the country&#8217;s response to growing cyber threats and safeguard critical digital infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"relative group\" style=\"text-align:left\">The legislation expands Kenya&#8217;s legal framework for combating cybercrime, addressing emerging online threats such as identity theft, phishing, cyberbullying, and the use of digital platforms to promote terrorism and violent extremism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"relative group\" style=\"text-align:left\">A key provision of the Bill empowers courts to order the blocking or removal of websites and applications found to be facilitating unlawful activities. Such directives may be issued against platforms that promote terrorism, extremist content, or sexual exploitation involving minors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"relative group\" style=\"text-align:left\">Lawmakers said the measures are intended to enhance online safety while protecting citizens from harmful and criminal digital activities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"relative group\" style=\"text-align:left\">The Bill also introduces provisions targeting the use of electronic communication and computer systems to encourage or facilitate suicide. Offenders found guilty of sending messages or using digital platforms to induce another person to take their own life will face legal sanctions under the new law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"relative group\" style=\"text-align:left\">To improve national preparedness against cyber threats, the legislation establishes the National Cybersecurity Agency and supporting operations centres tasked with monitoring, detecting, coordinating, and responding to cyber incidents across the country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawan.africa\/news\/parliament-approves-bill-establishing-national-cybersecurity-agency\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parliament Approves Bill Establishing National Cybersecurity Agency | Dawan Africa https:\/\/www.dawan.africa\/news\/parliament-approves-bill-establishing-national-cybersecurity-agency Publish Date: 2026-06-22 04:15:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":278191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.dawan.africa\/news-image?url=https%3A%2F%2Futfs.io%2Ff%2Fv9D9ylrdiyZgcEqFB4QlLu6JvEqWnSGXPVAiwohrYj87dgUZ","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-278189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-phishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278193,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278189\/revisions\/278193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}