then reach the IFEX Action Alerts Network (ANN) of which MISA is a member while MFWA will seek membership in 2004. MISA has in the past offered such assistance to the West Africa Journalist Association (WAJA). A WAJA employee was on attachment at the regional secretariat for a week in 2000. WAJA has to date however, not been able to get its alerts system off the ground. In addition to the collaboration with MFWA, MISA – in September 2002, also facilitated the participation of a Liberian journalist, Mr. Lyndon Ponnie, and Sudanese human rights advocate and journalist, Mr. Faisal El Bagir, to attend the IFEX General Meeting in Dakar, Senegal together with two employees of MFWA. The MFWA is at present not a member of the IFEX, but with the aforementioned collaboration with MISA, this organisation would be in a position to organise itself in such a manner that it will become eligible for IFEX membership. As a member of IFEX, MISA has resolved to participate in solidarity actions to further the cause of press freedom and freedom of expression regionally and internationally. The request from IFEX is further acknowledgement of MISA’s expertise in the area of Media Freedom Monitoring. 35