Democratic Elections in Africa: Analysing the Risk of Fraud and Electoral Malpractice

The conference “Democratic Elections in Africa: Analysing the Risk of Fraud and Electoral Malpractice”, organized by the Hanns Seidel Foundation’s Brussels Office alongside the Africa-EU Summit, aims to discuss the risks for electoral fraud and the prerequisites for free and fair elections in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Speakers include:

• PN Member Michael Gahler MEP, president of the delegation for relations with the Panafrican Parliament
• Senator David Coltart, former Minister of Education and Member of Parliament, Zimbabwe
• Franklin Oduro, Deputy Director, Ghana Center for Democratic Development, Ghana
• Tom Mboya, Consultant, Kenya
• Friedrich von Heusinger, Director, Representative of the State of Hesse at the EU
• Susanne Luther, Director of the Institute for International Cooperation, Hanns Seidel Foundation Munich
• Graham Hopwood, Director, Institute for Public Policy Research, Namibia

Date:     Tuesday 1 April 2014

Time:     19.00-20.45

For further information or to register your participation, please contact registration@hss.de.

Photo by Dan Finnan.