Pegasus international espionage expose rattles African governments
Kigali is said to have contracted the NSO Group and selected thousands of political activists, journalists, foreign politicians, and diplomats as candidates to infect their mobile phones with spyware named Pegasus. PHOTO | FILE
Diplomatic fallouts are expected after it emerged that Rwanda was allegedly spying on some African countries and individuals in an international espionage expose.
Revelations by the Pegasus Project report shows that Rwanda allegedly listed, for potential surveillance, mobile numbers of South African President Ramaphosa, Burundi Prime Minister Alain-Guillaume Bunyoni as well as some high-ranking Ugandan political and military figures, including then Prime Minister, now presidential advisor, Ruhakana Rugunda.
