Kenya: The Safaricom surveillance scandal | The Listening Post

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With around 50 million subscribers, Safaricom dominates Kenya’s mobile phone market - but its close relationship with the Ruto government is turning that user base into a key component of the state’s surveillance programme…illegally. Nicholas Muirhead reports. #kenya #safaricom #williamruto #ruto #surveillance #News #africanews

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