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Friday, April 26, 2013
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Speakers:
The Honorable Kingsley Kuku, special presidential adviser on Niger Delta Affairs
Oge Onubogu, NDI program manager, Southern and East Africa
Moderator: Steve McDonald, director of the Wilson Center’s Africa Program and the Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity

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Monday, April 29, 2013
3:00 p.m.

NDI is pleased to welcome Philip Howard and Muzammil Hussain for a conversation on the role of digital media in the recent MENA revolutions.

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Did digital media really “cause” the Arab Spring, or is it an important factor of the story behind what might become democracy’s fourth wave? Join us to discuss this in a

Book Talk with Phil Howard and Muzammil Hussein

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

8 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.

Speakers:

From left to right: Keith Jennings, NDI regional director for Southern and East Africa programs and Bill Sweeney, president and chief executive officer of IFES. 

Keith Jennings, NDI senior associate and regional director for Southern and East Africa programs, testified April 16 before the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations. Representative Chris Smith, chairman of the subcommittee, presided over the hearing, "Kenya's 2013 Elections: An Effective Assistance Model?"

Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili continues to be the most popular political leader in Georgia, and 60 percent rate the Georgian Dream Coalition as the “party” closest to them, according to the findings of a public opinion survey released here today by the National Democratic Institute (NDI). Fifty-six percent named the United National Movement (UNM) as the strongest opposition party in the country.

Katie Jacobs Stanton, vice president of international market development at Twitter, will join former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, chairman of the National Democratic Institute (NDI), at an April 24 panel of experts discussing the impact of technology on democracy and global affairs. At Twitter, Stanton is responsible for partnerships, driving user growth and other key efforts in strategic markets around the world. Before joining Twitter, Stanton worked for the White House, U.S. State Department, Google and Yahoo!.

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Three groups which helped the electoral commission prepare for the March 4 polls have told the US Congress that the elections were credible.

The current Venezuelan regime’s attempts to maintain power after the death of Hugo Chavez by installing his successor, Nicolas Maduro, through a “one-sided election” appear to be faltering. The regime seems prepared to use brute force to stay in power, and the election commission ratified the narrow election results, despite peaceful attempts by opposition leader Henrique Capriles Radonski to audit the suspect vote count.

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Leaders from several democracy promotion organizations testified at a congressional hearing today regarding Kenya’s national elections in March.

Swati Ramanathan, co-founder of the Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy in India, will join former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, chairman of the National Democratic Institute (NDI), at an April 24 panel of experts discussing the impact of technology on democracy and global affairs. Ramanathan created Janaagraha's two online initiatives: ipaidabribe.org, which tracks citizen reports of local corruption, and ichangemycity.org, which connects citizens in communities and empowers them to be activists for local issues of concern.