{"id":4393,"date":"2021-01-25T11:13:47","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T11:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/veranstaltung\/demokratie-in-afrika"},"modified":"2026-04-23T10:52:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:52:46","slug":"democracy-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"kreisky_event","link":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/veranstaltung\/demokratie-in-afrika","title":{"rendered":"Democracy in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCYASvMdCGDCluxOyeJ5du4g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YOUTUBE Premiere<\/a> FROM KREISKY'S LIVING ROOM\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Georg Lennkh in conversation with Caroline Gudenus<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Democracy in Africa<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Can Senegal be an example?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Most recently overshadowed by the Covid problem, there has been an increase in reports from Africa about negative trends and even open conflicts in democratic political developments. The focus is on issues such as the peaceful transition of power, the separation of powers, the work of journalists and freedom of expression, corruption, the role of civil society in public life and the temptation of those in power to use violence to assert themselves. Elections are no longer formal and unexciting updates or changes to political power relations. They have become focal points for all tensions, inequalities and pent-up anger at the obviously enriching elites, and thus political crisis events with an uncertain outcome. Examples of this are the elections held in Tanzania, C\u00f4te d'Ivoire, the Central African Republic and Uganda in recent months. At least nine more critical elections are scheduled for 2021. Against this backdrop, we will first discuss one country, Senegal, which has managed to steer a largely peaceful democratic political course despite all the tensions, and then examine other examples, especially in West Africa, from this given perspective.<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><strong>Caroline Gudenus, <\/strong>Former Austrian ambassador to several African countries<\/p>\n<p><strong>Georg Lennkh<\/strong>, Board member of the Kreisky Forum, former Austrian Special Envoy of the Federal Government for Africa<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YOUTUBE Premiere AUS KREISKYS WOHNZIMMER\u00a0 Georg Lennkh im Gespr\u00e4ch mit Caroline Gudenus DEMOKRATIE IN AFRIKA Kann der Senegal ein Beispiel sein? Zuletzt meist \u00fcberschattet von der Covid-Problematik kommen seit einiger Zeit auch aus Afrika wieder vermehrt Meldungen \u00fcber negative Trends bis offene Konflikte bei demokratiepolitischen Entwicklungen. Im Vordergrund stehen dabei Fragen wie friedlicher Machtwechsel, Gewaltenteilung, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4394,"template":"","format":[33],"meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"schwerpunkt":[43],"class_list":["post-4393","kreisky_event","type-kreisky_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","schwerpunkt-internationale-politik-europa-und-sicherheit","format-on-the-record"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>DEMOKRATIE IN AFRIKA - Kreisky Forum<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/event\/democracy-in-africa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"DEMOKRATIE IN AFRIKA - Kreisky Forum\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"YOUTUBE Premiere AUS KREISKYS WOHNZIMMER\u00a0 Georg Lennkh im Gespr\u00e4ch mit Caroline Gudenus DEMOKRATIE IN AFRIKA Kann der Senegal ein Beispiel sein? 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