Governance

Rwanda: 25 Years On, Solidarity With Victims Justice Efforts Continue for 1994 Genocide

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Alison Des Forges was Human Rights Watch’s senior advisor in the Africa Division and one of the world’s foremost experts on Rwanda. In the period leading up to the genocide, she worked tirelessly to alert world powers to the impending crisis in Rwanda. Her efforts did not stop when the genocide ended. She continued painstakingly […]

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Ex-Mozilla CTO: US border cops demanded I unlock my phone, laptop at SF airport – and I’m an American citizen

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Techie says he was grilled for three hours after refusing to let agents search his devices By Shaun Nichols in San Francisco 2 Apr 2019 at 23:25 Former Mozilla CTO Andreas Gal says he was interrogated for three hours by America’s border cops after arriving at San Francisco airport – because he refused to unlock his work laptop and phone. Gal,

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Fake mobile applications exposing Kenyans to cyber fraud, CA Report

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A proliferation of mobile applications on popular online stores is exposing Kenyans to increased cyber-attacks and fraud, the latest sector statistics report by the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) shows.   The report covering October-December 2018 shows a dramatic spike in malware attacks, targeting mobile devices and which has seen unsuspecting Kenyans defrauded in online

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Tanzania charges Vodacom Tanzania MD with economic crimes: court documents

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  By Fumbuka Ng’wanakilala and Omar Mohammed DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) – Tanzanian authorities on Wednesday charged the managing director of Vodacom Tanzania and other telecom executives with economic crimes, court documents seen by Reuters showed. Egyptian Hisham Hendi and other telecom executives “intentionally and wilfully organized a criminal racket, which caused the government …

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This startup built a device to figure out if prescription drugs are fake

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Counterfeit medications claim thousands of lives each year. Nigerian entrepreneur Adebayo Alonge built a scanner that can detect fake drugs in 20 seconds to protect people from this growing issue. In Africa, the counterfeit drug trade is a $30 billionoperation. As pharmaceutical sales have grown the past few decades, suppliers have begun to flood markets with

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Lagos CP visits family of Kolade Johnson killed by policemen

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By Kazeem Ugbodaga Police Team led by the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Zubairu Muazu, on Tuesday paid condolence visit to the family of Kolade Johnson, who was shot dead by police officers on Sunday. The police team reassured the family that justice must prevail. The CP was accompanied by the Deputy Commissioner of

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Train up ‘cyber security champions’ to stop hackers, small businesses told

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Small businesses should train up “cyber security champions” to better protect themselves from the threat of cyber attacks, new government research has suggested.   A report by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) claimed that in the case of more than half (57%) of businesses who

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Police most corrupt institution in Nigeria, reveals SERAP survey

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A new public survey released today by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) reports high levels of corruption in public institutions in Nigeria for the past 5 years. Of the five major public institutions surveyed, the police emerge as the most corrupt, with the power sector identified as the second most corrupt in the country

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Aussie engineer accuses ‘serial farter’ supervisor of bullying, seeks $1.8m redress

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Farting at work is a bigger taboo than discussing pay. The polite, who usually have crippling gas anxiety, will excuse themselves and let rip, but not before ensuring the toilet is empty and unlikely to have any additional guests while the deed is done. The brave will go through a series of anal acrobatics to

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‘Android ad fraud drains phone battery’

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A new report has uncovered a massive advertising fraud scheme that made scammers serious cash, fooled marketing companies and killed users’ smartphone batteries. The scheme operated via fake banner advertisements that were secretly hidden behind legitimate banner ads in Android apps, according to BuzzFeed News. ADVERTISEMENT This scam was previously spotted by at least two ad

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