How Zimbabwe is building a Big Brother surveillance state

An estate under siege: How the press in Zimbabwe is being gagged

Unfreedom Monitor report: Zimbabwe

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How Artificial Intelligence could influence Zimbabwe’s 2023 elections

Weaponising the law: Zimbabwe’s new frontier in digital rights repression

Freedom of expression in a downward spiral in Southern Africa, says new study

A Zimbabwean journalist, two opposition politicians jailed for tweets about police brutality

Lockdown to shutdown: How COVID-19 stifled digital rights in Zimbabwe

Seven African governments employ surveillance spyware, says new study

Zimbabwe governance crisis: Arrests over COVID-19 corruption and planned protests

Outrage as Zimbabwe’s military declares social media a ‘dangerous threat’

How Zimbabwe's biometric ID scheme (and China’s AI aspirations) threw a wrench into the 2018 election

Zimbabwe government continues to weaponize information online to control citizen engagement

What do Zimbabwe’s internet disruptions say about the state of digital rights in the country?

Amid civil unrest, internet shutdowns are making Zimbabwe's economic crisis worse

"It's not the fuel price increases, it's not the looming hunger. The most scary thing is that these guys in government are convinced that they are doing a good job."

Netizen Report: Zimbabwe’s internet goes dark amid protests, nationwide strike

The update from Zimbabwe, plus: China fines VPN users, Cuba is censoring SMS messages and Iranian officials plan to block Instagram.

Taxed, throttled or thrown in jail: Africa’s new internet paradigm

Across the continent, the legal and economic costs of speaking up are rising.

Netizen Report: What do Zimbabwe, Kashmir, and Turkey Have in Common? Internet Censorship.

In this edition, we report on #ShutdownZim protests that sparked Zimbabwe to block WhatsApp, the full-on Internet shutdown in Kashmir and ongoing social media censorship in Brazil, Ethiopia and Turkey.

#ShutDownZim: Will Social Media Protests Drive Zimbabwe to Build a ‘Great Firewall'?

This is the first time Zimbabwe has staged a "shutdown" over government dysfunction by organizing on social media. But protests could trigger new forms of censorship.