Ellison to travel to Africa for summer recess

Rep. Keith Ellison

Rep. Keith Ellison will be traveling to Africa in July with a delegation of five Democrats and three Republicans as part of the House Democracy Partnership. According to the Star Tribune, Ellison will visit Senegal, Liberia, Kenya and Tanzania through the program, which brings House members’ expertise in government to developing democracies around the world.

The House Democracy Partnership “works through peer-to-peer partnerships with emerging democratic legislatures to assist in the development of the fundamental building blocks of legislative government: oversight, transparency, accountability, effective legislation, and responsiveness to constituents.”

The House has partnered with legislatures in 15 countries including Afghanistan, Colombia, East Timor, Georgia, Haiti, Indonesia, Kosovo, Kenya, Lebanon, Liberia, Macedonia, Mongolia, Pakistan, Peru and Ukraine.