News and press statements
Zambia: Way Forward in 2019
MISA Zambia’s recommendations for improving media freedom, freedom of expression and access to information.
Media work is not a crime – MISA Zambia
MiSA Zambia firmly condemns the recent attacks by affiliates of the Patriotic Front (PF) against media houses and workers.
MISA Zambia welcomes the lifting of Prime TV suspension
MiSA Zambia would like welcome the move taken by the Independent Broadcasting
Authority (IBA) to lift the suspension of license of Prime Television.
MISA Zambia welcomes move to empower IBA
MiSA Zambia has welcomed the pronouncement by the government to enact a law that will grant the IBA legal mandate to regulate ZNBC
ATI imperative for meaningful discourse – Lifuka
Transparency International Zambia President, Ruben Lifuka, says the Access to Information (ATI) law is imperative in citizen’s ability to engage in quality and meaningful discourse on public...
Don’t intimidate messengers and chroniclers of events – MISA Zambia
MISA Zambia is gravely alarmed over a trend to gag or threaten the media over coverage of the current political and social events.
State of the Media in Zambia – Q4, 2018
MISA Zambia says the fourth quarter of 2018 was a challenging one in view of the heightened calls to regulate the cyber space and the media.
Stop assault on the media – MISA Zambia
MISA Zambia Vice Chairperson Hyde Haguta says it is unfortunate that Zambia’s media continue to experience attacks from political party cadres and state agents.
Search warrant at Prime TV is media intimidation and affront to democracy – MISA Zambia
MISA Zambia is shocked that police have a warrant to search computers of Prime Television for footage which police allege borders on defamation of the President.