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Eritrea and North Korea are the world’s most censored countries, advocacy group says

by Rick Gladstone

The impoverished African nation of Eritrea has the lowest rate of cellphone ownership in the world, less than 1 percent of its people can go online, and its journalists are so terrified of offending the president that even reporters for the state-run news media live in perpetual fear of arrest.