As smart cities stir privacy fears from Egypt to Saudi Arabia, rights groups are questioning the multimillion-dollar project’s surveillance ambitions, especially in a country where security forces have been accused of violence and arbitrary arrests
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By Farai Shawn Matiashe / Thomson Reuters Foundation, HARARE
In a fertile stretch of fields and farms dubbed New Harare, Zimbabwe is building a high-tech “cybercity” a world away from the traffic-clogged streets and overcrowded slums of the country’s nearby capital.
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa, eager to highlight positive news about the country’s troubled economy, last year launched the first…
