Like the Portuguese publications in Angola, few English publications have been inconsistent and some like The Mopheme from Lesotho, the Daily News from Zimbabwe, The Post from Zambia and PANA have stopped their contributions. This gap in the contribution of information to the MNEP, from the Portuguese newspapers, and few other English publications have disadvantaged at the most the English Publication, which initially received 5 translated articles daily. Currently, 8 articles are translated daily, which are fed to the Portuguese newspapers in the region. Last year, the Portuguese translated articles reached a large number of audiences in Angola, through weeklies such as Actual, AGORA and FOLHA 8 all from Angola that carried our translated articles covering almost whole pages. This has also been confirmed by a daily Electronic Publication AFRICAMENTE, and MediaFax. Recently it has also been confirmed to the news exchange that Radio Watana in Mozambique, reads the MISA news on a daily basis. This radio reaches an estimated 25,000 people in Mozambique alone. Other Media Support Activities As part of the MISA Swaziland Chapter’s collaborating initiative, the office joined hands with Unicef with the possibility of a fair coverage of Children issues in the media. There are possibilities of training opportunities for media practitioners as well as formation of partnership to produce a media friendly environment for children. Apart from the traditional MISA activities above ZIMA also has other programmes which have been sponsored by funds sourced by ZIMA from local donors which it is running side by side with the MISA programmes. These are: 1. Media Literacy seminars. So far in the period under review two such workshops have been held in Mazabuka and Monze. These seminars are primarily meant to educate villagers o their role in community media. The seminars have been extended to schools and press clubs are being formed. 2. Face the media This has been one of the most successful programmes which has uplifted the name of ZIMA in Zambia. This live phone-in Radio programme was originally aired only on Radio Phoenix but is now being aired in 10 other community and commercial programmes around Zambia – These programmes have featured among others 32