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Reporters Without Borders
Kenya

Source: http://rsf.fr/article.php3?id_article=7205
Or: http://rsf.fr/print.php3?id_article=7205

18.06.2003

The Internet has been available since 1995, earlier than in most other African countries, and is not regulated. The number of users, mostly from the educated and upper classes, increases greatly every year. Despite there being no Internet law, the government, which has tense relations with the media, watches online activity closely. In late August and early September 2001, police searched two cybercafés in Nairobi and arrested several foreigners who were accused of distributing secret defence documents.

Links :

* "The future of the Internet in Kenya" article in the regional daily The East African Standard: http://allafrica.com/stories/200303040359.html

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