PROMOTING FREE EXPRESSION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
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The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) was founded in 1992. Its work focuses on promoting, and advocating for, the unhindered enjoyment of freedom of expression, access to information and a free, independent, diverse and pluralistic media.
Despite some improvements in media freedom across Southern Africa, most countries in the region continue to be classified as problematic and difficult, according to the latest Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index report. South Africa and Namibia remain...
MISA has officially launched the sixth edition of the Southern Africa Press Freedom Report 2026, a comprehensive assessment of 11 countries that reveals a critical inflection point for the region's media landscape. While constitutional guarantees of press freedom...
As part of the Enhancing Economic Awareness for Improved Decision-Making in Malawi project that MISA Malawi, Oxfam in Malawi, Economics Association of Malawi (ECAMA) and Malawi Economic Justice Network (MEJN) implemented between January and March 31, 2026, we compiled...
MISA Regional welcomes the adoption of Resolution ACHPR/Res.657(LXXXVI) 2026 on Access to Information and the Right to a Healthy Environment by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR). The ACHPR adopted the Resolution during its 86th Ordinary...
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