Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA)

The African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX) joins the Association for Media Development in South Sudan (AMDISS) to strongly condemn the arbitrary closure of Eye Radio station by the South Sudan National Security Service (NSS).

The African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX) has petitioned President Salva Kiir over the closure of the country’s leading private paper, The Nation Mirror. In September, the National Security Service ordered the indefinite closure of The Nation Mirror without any explanation.

Over 40 organisations call for Turkey’s national assembly to end the national state of emergency, extended for three months on October 19th.

IFEX members call on Prime Minister Trudeau to put human rights, especially free expression and press freedom, at the heart of the Canada-China relationship.

Work of various African organisations and governments helped lead the way to last week’s inaugural International Day for Universal Access to Information.

In commemoration of the first International Day of Universal Access to Information, MISA has launched its Transparency Assessment, which seeks to establish the ease or difficulty with which citizens in southern Africa can access public information.

Reporter Abdiasis Mohammed Ali was shot on 27 September 2016, on his way to visit his uncle in Mogadishu. Ali had worked with Radio Shabelle for more than seven years and was arrested on several occasions by the police and the National Intelligence and Security Agency in connection with his work as a journalist.

On 14 September 2016, five Internet users were arraigned before a Tanzanian Court on charges of insulting President John Magufuli on social media.