AfriLeaks has finally launched. The website is designed to allow Africans anonymously leak confidential documents of public interest to investigative media outlets within the continent.
The website, though similar to the already accomplished Wikileaks, claims to offer something essentially different.
“Wikileaks publishes the information it receives directly,” reads the AfriLeaks website, “AfriLeaks, on the other hand, is a highly secure mailbox connecting investigative media houses to whistleblowers. Documents shared on afriLeaks form the beginning of a journalistic inquiry, instead of being shared directly on the web.”
On security and anonymity, AfriLeaks says it uses state of the art security software to anonymize your internet connection (specifically, Tor, amid a throng of other social and technical security procedures) as you submit documents to or correspond with reporters.
AfriLeaks currently partners with Daily Monitor, Global Witness, Premium Times, The Zimbabwean, Mmegi and 14 others, out of which ‘leakers’ can choose who investigates their leak.
