Most Africans are supportive of media holding government to account and favour press freedom over government regulation, the latest Afrobarometer (www.Afrobarometer.org) Pan-Africa Profile (https://apo-opa.co/4ukNfS8) shows, according to an Afrobarometer official statement issued in Accra,Friday. While support for a free press is a majority position in nearly all surveyed countries, substantial minorities in most countries – and a large majority in Mali – favour government control over what the media can publish. The new report, based on 45,600 interviews across 38 African countries in 2024/2025, also shows that citizen assessments of…
Africans Back Media, Freedom Still Questioned
