Established in 1998 in Libreville, Gabon, ACRAN aims at developing and reinforcing the co-operation between the communication regulatory authorities in Africa.

It currently counts 37 members: 

• Angola: National Council of Social Communication (CNCS)
• Benin: High Authority for Audiovisual Communication (HAAC)
• Botswana: National Broadcasting Board (NBB)
• Burkina Faso: Supreme Council of Communication (CSC)
• Burundi: National Communication Council (CNC)
• Cameroon: National Communication Council (CNC)
• Cape Verde: Media Regulatory Authority (ARC)
• Central African Republic: High Council for Communication  (HCC)
• Chad: High Authority for Media and Audiovisual (HAMA)
• Comores: he Conseil National de la Presse et de l'Audiovisuel Union des Comores (CNPA)
• Democratic Republic of the Congo: Higher Council for Audiovisual and Communication (CSAC)
• Djibouti:  The Commission nationale de la communication (CNC)
• Gabon: High Authority for Communication (HAC)
• Ghana: National Media Commission (NMC)
• Guinea:  the Haute Autorité de la Communication (HAC)
• Guinea-Bissau: National Council of Social Communication (CNCS)
• Cote d'Ivoire: High Authority for Audiovisual Communication (HACA)
• Kenya: Communications Authority of Kenya (CAK)
• Lesotho: Lesotho Communications Authority (LCA)
• Mali: High Authority for Communication (HAC)
• Mauritania: High Authority for Press and Audiovisual (HAPA)
• Morocco: High Authority for Audiovisual Communication (HACA)
• Mozambique: Higher Council for Social Communication (CSCS)
• Namibia: Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia (CRAN)
• Niger: Higher Council for Communication (CSC)
• Nigeria: National Broadcasting Commission (NBC)
• Republic of the Congo: the Conseil Supérieur de la Liberté de la Communication (CSLC)
• Rwanda: Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority (RURA)
• Sao Tome and Principe: Superior Council of Information (CSI)
• Senegal: National Council for Audiovisual Regulation (CNRA)
• Sierra Leone: Independent Media Commission of Sierra Leone (IMC)
• South Africa: Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA)
• Tanzania: Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA)
• Togo: High Authority for Audiovisual and Communication (HAAC)
• Tunisia: Independent High Authority for Audiovisual Communication (HAICA)
• Uganda: Uganda Communications Commission (UCC)
• Zimbabwe: Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ)

The headquarters of ACRAN are established at Cotonou, capital of the Republic of Benin.

Chair 2025: René Bourgoin, HACA, Ivory Coast

Contact Secretariat: coordination@acran.org
Website: http://www.acran.org/

A cooperation agreement between the media regulatory authorities in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania was signed in 2005 to take into account the similarities of the small audiovisual markets of the Baltic States. The three authorities have been meeting regularly ever since.