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Co-Founding Members of MOSFA at Elmina, Ghana, 2016

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This years objectives are for MOSFA to conduct workshop sessions to provide a mix of technical knowledge and media training in investigative practices, solutions and data-driven journalism for our member-journalists within the five regions of Africa at:

Dakar
Tangier
Cape Town
Yaounde
Dar es Salam
Madagascar

Our goal is to foster excellence among member-journalists and to create a platform for our members to build and share knowledge with their peers, and to encourage dialogue with leaders and stakeholder to facilitate transparency and reform in the fisheries system. By doing so, we aim to promote diversity in journalism and inspire successive generations of talented individuals to champion the cause of voiceless stakeholders in the fisheries management.

If you are a journalist in Africa and would like to cover an aspect of Africa's Fisheries and Aquaculture Sector, we encourage you to subscribe to our Membership. It's FREE

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Membership in MOSFA

MOSFA is a non-profit, non-govermental organization (NGO) devoted to inform, educate, engage and influence the public sector about the state of Africa's fisheries and aquaculture sector, animal resources, and the Blue Economy.

Membership in MOSFA is open to all journalists in Africa who operate with editorial independence from any political, government, commercial or special interest groups and work primarily to disseminate news and information.

Our membership is comprised of journalists who share a common vision of ending extreme poverty by advocating for equitable, rational, prosperous and sustainable fisheries and aquaculture programmes in Africa.

Our membership spans a wide range of professional journalists from over 44 countries in Africa who contribute to newspapers, broadcast news programs (radio, television and digital), magazines, journals, news services, or online publications, either on staff or in a freelance capacity.

Our objective is to create a platform to promote the rights and respects of the stakeholders engaged in the fisheries and aquaculture sector, and for their voices to be heard in policy discussions that impact their communities, their environment, and that threatens their livelihood.

Our aim is to champion the cause for better governance of Africa's fisheries and aquaculture sector and to end illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing in Africa by:

advocating for better fisheries and aquaculture policies and programs that enhances the legal frameworks for the rights of individuals to food security

advocating for better mechanisms to promote dialogue between stakeholders and empower civil society members to hold government officials accountable for the design and implementation of policies conducive to the realization of the right to food security

advocating for enhanced methods of data collection in the fisheries and aquaculture sector that would drive policy and action plans to eradicate hunger and improve the livelihoods of millions of Africans

advocating for increased involvement of all stakeholders including government and civil society, to enhance awareness of the key role fisheries play in food and nutrition security for millions of Africans.

MOSFA Committee

The governing body for MOSFA is comprised of an Executive Committee who are duly elected representatives from the five regions of Africa (Northern Africa, Southern Africa, Eastern Africa, Western Africa, Central Africa) and three advisers from the diaspora who's responsibility is to articulate the organization's mission and vision, and develop a strategy and plan to achieve it. The Executive Committee is comprised of eight voting members elected at the General Meeting.

The eight member committee is comprised of:

1). Coordinator - Mr. André Naoussi (Cameroon)

Email: andrenaoussi@gmail.com

2). General Secretary - Mr. Ashok Beehary (Mauritus)

Email: ashokb@intnet.mu

3). Treasurer - Ms. Apphia Nysha Musavengana (Zimbabwe)

Email: apphianyaa@gmail.com

4). Administrative Assistant - Ms. Catherine Frimpomaa (Ghana)

Email: frimpomaacatherine@gmail.com

5). Adviser - Dr. Allieu M. Shaw (USA)

Email: allieu.shaw@gmail.com

6). Adviser - Mr. Georges Collinet (USA)