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Country Profile: Zimbabwe
Background
Since Zimbabwe’s independence from Great Britain in 1980, the country has been tightly controlled by President Robert Mugabe and the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF), which is known for severe repression and continuing violations of human rights....
- Posted on 30/Sep/2009; tagged in Sub-Saharan Africa, Zimbabwe -
The OpenNet Initiative (ONI) has released updated reports on Ethiopia and Zimbabwe and new reports on Uganda and Nigeria, where ONI tested for the first time in 2008 and 2009. All four profiles can be accessed at: http://opennet.net/research/regions/ssafrica.
Many governments across sub-Saharan...
- Posted on 01/Oct/2009; tagged in Conflict and security filtering, Ethiopia, Filtering tech and software, Nigeria, ONI, Political filtering, Publications, Sub-Saharan Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe -
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Overview
Despite the country’s highly repressive regime, ONI found no evidence of Web site filtration in Zimbabwe. Limited Internet access and e-mail–focused usage have centered the country’s...
