The West African nation of Togo is set to become the home of a new African Center for Coordination and Research in Cybersecurity. The central hub, to be located in Lomé, will serve to collect cybersecurity information and intelligence for the region, in an effort to support a “true African…
Zambia’s communications minister is defending the southern African nation’s plans to more tightly control social media use, saying the government is concerned about scams and other Internet abuses. Brian Mushimba, the Transport and Communications minister, said in a statement issued Friday that more than 600 Zambians have lost tens of…
Ethiopia has continued its targeted malware attacks on activists and dissidents, including the Oromia Media Network (OMN) in the United States, according to a report released Wednesday by Citizen Lab. The digital experts at the lab, based at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, analyzed…
There were 438 reported cases of interference with media professionals across Egypt in 2016, according to a new report from the Egyptian Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE). The annual report on Egypt’s climate of repression found that journalists across the country’s 22 provinces were among the most…
A U.S. citizen whose communications were monitored by Ethiopian agents from afar is appealing his case, on the grounds that Ethiopia must be accountable for illegal spying that relied on state-sponsored malware to infect his home computer. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a nonprofit focused on defending civil liberties and…
The repression of ideas is under “widespread assault,” according to a new United Nations report on freedom of expression that finds mature democracies and developing nations alike are silencing dissent – and treating words as weapons – to suppress the free exchange of information and ideas. Internet shutdowns from Uganda…