Africa's Surveillance Market and Foreign Help

The Africa Report published on 3 February 2020 an article titled "Inside Africa's Increasingly Lucrative Surveillance Market" by Mathieu Olivier.

The article looks at companies from a number of Western countries, Israel, China, and Russia that are assisting African countries to develop their surveillance capability. The author concludes that whether the technology comes from the French, Russians or Chinese, no country has the technical ability to fully protect itself from monitoring the networks that the companies install.

This article appeared first in Jeune Afrique on 29 January 2020 titled "Entre Surveillance des Opposants et des Terroristes, le Juteux Marche de l'Espionnage en Afrique."