MISA celebrations in the rest of Southern Africa

Annually, on World Press Freedom Day, May 3, MISA launches its state of media freedom report, So This Is Democracy? throughout southern Africa.

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Windhoek Declaration

The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA), the Government of the Republic of Namibia, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco), and the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN/IFRA) are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Windhoek Declaration, which culminated in 03 May 1991, being declared World Press Freedom Day by the United Nations General Assembly.

IFEX unveils special website for World Press Freedom Day

 

World Press Freedom Day: May 3, 2011

Media in Africa 20 Years On: Our Past,
Present and Future.

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Windhoek Declaration on
Promoting an Independent and Pluralistic African Press

World Bank links unrest to lack of accountability

April 11, 2011 - WORLD Bank president Robert Zoellick says the crisis engulfing Middle East and North Africa shows that stability of any country can only be guaranteed if the government is more accountable to the people.


Zoellick said that greater citizen participation and better governance were crucial for economic development.

Who is Muammar Gaddafi?

How can you call someone a dictator leader who overthrew a corrupt monarchy, modernized the country, won the highest HDI in Africa, and applied a direct democracy system of government?

World Press Freedom Day 2011: In Retrospect?

Marshall McLuhan, the Canadian communications theorist Educator,  Writer and Social Reformer, once said that the new media are not  bridges between man and nature; they are nature.