Liberia

After years of devastating civil war, Liberia is trying to rebuild its basic infrastructure. The Internet is not a priority at all and facilities hardly exist. This does not stop President Charles Taylor from attacking the Internet in the same way he attacks the opposition press. He charges that exiled opposition journalists putting out news about the situation in Liberia are waging a "war" against him on the Internet. The country's lone ISP, Data Tech, is accused of cutting off access when websites run by Liberians abroad contain too much anti-government material. The government launched a website in 2001 called allaboutliberia.com to counter these diaspora sites. Links: Government news site Opposition news site