More than 300 Togolese numbers appear in the list of potential targets of the Israeli spyware, Pegasus. Togo is one of the African countries closest to the Hebrew state. The people targeted include activists, journalists and political opponents.
On the political side, the numbers targeted by the Pegasus spyware include those of opponents of the Faure Gnassingbé regime. This is the case of Tikpi Atchadam, leader of the National Pan-African Party, or Agbéyomé Kodjo, unsuccessful candidate in the 2020 presidential election against the head of state. Both now live in exile.
Activists and journalists are also targeted, such as David Ekoué Dosseh, founder of the citizen platform Togo Debout, and investigative journalist Carlos Ketohou.
While the Israeli company NSO, which publishes and markets the Pegasus software, disputes these revelations, the Togolese authorities do not deny them. Questioned by the newspaper Le Monde on the use of the Pegasus software in Togo to fight terrorism, President Faure Gnassingbé replied that " each sovereign state organizes itself to face what threatens it with the means at its disposal. "
As for spying on his opponents, the head of state responds that he cannot confirm it. However, notes Le Monde , he does not exclude it either.
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