Finally, Anonymous are turning their heads to the African continent to dig into the injustice that is going on between corporations and child labour. According to sources, there are seven nations that the hacker group will focus on, including South African, Rwandan, Ugandan, Zimbabwean, Tanzanian, Sudanese, South Sudan, and Ethiopian governments. In a statement released by the collective, they announced the atrocities they were to deal with:
The governing bodies of Africa have allowed these atrocities [to] go on, making children go without proper education or healthcare, leaving their country in a position for further economic stunting and a lower quality of life for their people. As long as this corruption occurs, the rich get richer while the poor get poorer. OpNigeria has done a wonderful job tackling the corruption within their country, and now we shall begin collaborating from around the world for the betterment of the African continent.
- 48 million children in the workforce in Sub-Saharan Africa; 13.4 million in North Africa and the Middle East
- 41% of children on the continent work — highest in the world
- 30% of African children between 10 and 14 are agricultural workers
- Estimated 400,000 child workers in Rwanda, 120,000 in the ‘worst forms of child labour’
- 40% of child prostitutes in Rwanda had lost both of their parents, 94% lived in extreme poverty and 41% had never been to school
- 4,600 children are estimated to be working in small-scale mining in Tanzania
- 1.9 million children aged 5 – 17 in Kenya are working. 3.2% of those have gone to secondary school
- 5 million children estimated to work in Zimbabwe
- In West Africa, 35,000 children are involved in sexual exploitation
So far, Rwanda and Uganda have already been hacked. Rwanda’s Broadband Systems Corporation (BSC) provides video conferencing software to the local government and the breach is the company’s email accounts and ticketing systems, providing access to a lot of sensitive information. Uganda’s Minister of Finance was hacked by Hanom1960:
This database contained the details of 220 government employees, including stuff like their real names, emails, phone numbers, usernames, user level, and MD5 hashed passwords.
And what of South Africa? It seems the target may be agriculture as their statement praises the work of Operation Green Rights:
They are fighting corporate giants such as Dupont, Monsanto, South Africa Pannard Seed and Pioneer. These companies are all guilty of distributing GMOS throughout out the continent without considering the ecological impact, and they must be stopped from further damaging the delicate balance of African biodiversity.
Interesting.
