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Reporters Without Borders
Mauritania

Source: http://rsf.fr/article.php3?id_article=7269
Or: http://rsf.fr/print.php3?id_article=7269

18.06.2003

The country went online in 1997, but most people use cybercafés, since the high cost of computers, ISP subscriptions (about 30 euros a month) and connections discourage logging on to the Internet from home.

Despite its small audience, the authorities have already circumscribed the Internet, with most privately-owned ISPs in the hands of pro-government businessmen. Cybercafé owners are obliged, if asked by state security officials, to submit copies of e-mail messages received or sent from their premises.

LINKS :

* Human rights in North Africa: http://www.maghreb-ddh.org/

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