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Cyber surveillance: a new market, with old clients

Cyber surveillance: a new market, with old clients

The murky world of cyber espionage is increasingly valuable on the continent

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Inside Africa’s increasingly lucrative surveillance market

Dozens of journalists, human rights activists and business leaders were tapped via Israeli software by Moroccan, Saudi, Togolese and Rwandan intelligence services. The revelations of the investigation by a consortium of 17 international media exploded on Sunday 18 July. The company NSO, which designed the Pegasus spyware and distributes it, denied the allegations that which it described as "false".

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