Host Maimouna Mills is joined by Ambassador Gwendoline Konie, founder and president of the Social Democratic Party of Zambia; Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Liberian Opposition Leader of the Unity Party of Liberia; and Alassane Ouatarra, Former Prime Minister of Cote d'Ivoire, to discuss democracy taking root in sub-Saharan Africa.
Enas al-Shafie, WLP Egypt/Forum for Women in Development (FWID), discusses the Egyptian government's increasingly restrictive practices against non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and describes cooperation between different NGOs to provide aid to Lebanon in the wake of the 2006 Lebanon War.
