AfriLeaks: Website To Shame Politicians & Businessmen Who Abuse Power in Africa

Journalists are hoping that the public will leak more information to them via the internet. A whistle-blowing website which aims to expose politicians and businessmen who abuse power in Africa has been launched by media and campaign groups.AfriLeaks will give people a chance to leak sensitive information anonymously. The site’s founders say it is an attempt to boost investigative journalism to expose widespread corruption and human rights abuses. It will also help circumvent growing surveillance by governments and corporate firms, they say. Afrileaks, made up of 19 media outlets and activist groups, says it is committed to “speaking truth to power”.

‘Digital safety’
“You will be able to send us documents and select which of our member organisations should investigate it,” it says.
“We’ve designed a system that helps you to share these materials while protecting your own identity, so that it becomes impossible to identify you as the source of the leak.”
Most of the 19 are newspapers and include South Africa’s Mail & Guardian, Kenya’s Daily Nation and Nigeria’s Premium Times. The Mail & Guardian says AfriLeaks is modelled along the lines of Europe’s GlobaLeaks with the aim of making whistleblowing safer.
“In the post-Snowden world in which we live, with government and corporate surveillance a reality, it has become critically important for journalists and whistleblowers to take every precaution to ensure their digital safety,” the paper reports.
The US wants to put ex-security contractor Edward Snowden on trial for leaking to the media in 2013 details of mass surveillance programmes. He is exiled in Russia. Correspondents say newspapers in multi-party democracies in Africa have often exposed corruption and human rights abuses.
The challenge AfriLeaks faces is to get whistleblowers in repressive states like Eritrea and Sudan, where control over the internet is tight, they say.

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Posted: at 14-01-2015 03:35 PM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero

 

Posted: at 14-01-2015 03:57 PM (9 years ago) | Hero

 

Posted: at 14-01-2015 04:57 PM (9 years ago) | Hero

We ALL know that in Africa- the ONE EYED people are KING! Corruption is our breakfast, lunch and dinner. The colonialists came and TOOK what they WANTED (including SLAVES) and NOW its the turn of the INDIGENES of AFRICA to continue the R.A.P.E. of Africa!

Posted: at 14-01-2015 05:28 PM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Ok

Posted: at 14-01-2015 07:19 PM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac

 

Posted: at 14-01-2015 09:59 PM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero

As if its genuine

Posted: at 15-01-2015 08:34 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac

All na wash.......

Posted: at 15-01-2015 10:39 AM (9 years ago) | Upcoming

Posted: at 15-01-2015 12:40 PM (9 years ago) | Hero

Nice one, they should be exposed. All of them...

Posted: at 23-08-2015 06:59 PM (8 years ago) | Hero