Lamina Boto Tsara Dia
Director of Publications
The NGO Malina is an independent media outlet committed to conducting specialised journalistic investigations into the fight against corruption. Through a rigorous approach, MALINA highlights practices of high-level corruption that have a direct impact on the public interest and the country’s development, affecting key sectors (education, health, environment, mining, land, political integrity, etc.).
Our ambition for the future: Access for citizens to reliable and informed information, enabling them to defend the common interest.
What guides us:
• Transparency: Exposing acts of corruption that compromise the public interest;
• Accountability: Calling on decision-makers to take responsibility for various abuses and excesses;
• Integrity: Adherence to the journalistic charter and code of ethics at every stage of production in order to disseminate verified and authentic information in accordance with the art.
Our journey:
Malina was founded in 2018 as a network of anti-corruption investigative journalists created and supported by Transparency International – Initiative Madagascar (TI-MG) following a successful collaboration on a newspaper article about rosewood. TI-MG provides an environment conducive to independent investigative journalism by offering financial, logistical and technical support to journalists.
In 2022, to support Malina’s growth as a media outlet, it became a non-governmental organisation, continuing its efforts to ensure its sustainability and autonomy in order to reach a wider audience through the diversification of production and publication formats.
Malina currently has around 20 journalists and technicians based in Antananarivo, Antsirabe, Toamasina, Morondava and Antsiranana.
Since 2019, Malina has been organising the Malina Grand Prix competition to reward the best journalistic investigations on the theme of the fight against corruption in Madagascar.
