Angola: Cyber-Attacks Against Angolan News Site and Reporter

press release

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the cyber-attacks to which an online newspaper and a reporter were subjected in Angola after reporting a case of alleged corruption involving the president's chief of staff. Those responsible must identified and punished, RSF says.

The website of Correio Angolense, one of Angola's most respected independent online news sources, has been inaccessible since 25 September, when it was crashed by thousands of simultaneous connection attempts, many more than is normal. Its editor, Graça Campos, told RSF that everything indicates that this was a cyber-attack.

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