China ‘planted bugs’ while building African Union HQ
By owino tobias oongo - 2020-05-07 21:03:52 - [General]
Microphones were found in offices managed by Chinese engineers
Aislinn Laing, Johannesburg
Thursday February 01 2018, 12.01am, The Times
China planted bugs to spy on discussions at the glittering African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa that it built five years ago, it has been claimed.
The alleged hack was discovered when IT engineers investigated why the centre’s computer servers reached a peak for data activity between midnight and 2am. They found that the servers were connected to others in Shanghai, and were transferring information, according to an investigation by the French newspaper Le Monde.
Ethiopian cybersecurity experts found microphones hidden in desks and walls and at the time, last January, there were Chinese engineers in the building managing its computers.
African heads of state and AU civil servants remained unaware of the discovery, one AU official told the paper.
The young growing African population will keep wondering the level of naivity and mediocrity of majority of African leadership, for all projects, accepted for China to patronize Africa, to the extent that it had to build and donate an office block for the African Union headquarters, in Addis Ababa.
A landmark embarrassment and abuse to the continent.
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