GIGA Forum

Hamburg–Dar es Salaam’s Twinning at Fifteen: Prospects for Cooperation with a Confident Global South

Date

30/06/2025

Start

06:00 p.m. (CEST)

End

07:30 p.m. (CEST)

Two people holding and crossing the Tanzanian and Hamburg flags as a sign of partnership.

  • The twinning of the cities of Hamburg and Dar es Salaam will celebrate its 15-year anniversary in summer 2025 against the backdrop of shifting North–South relations. Today, countries in the Global South are entering the global stage with new confidence in the face of a reconfiguration of alliances. Global South actors leverage their growing global importance. Simultaneously, the influence of Europe and the United States is fading in these regions. What opportunities for North–South cooperation can a city-twinning offer in the context of these altered geopolitical constellations? How can the partnership between Hamburg and Dar es Salaam to contribute to a better mutual understanding beyond the narrow, project-based collaboration? What innovative forms of cooperation might be possible that would also provide food for thought globally?

    Speakers:  Inken Bruns runs the city-twinning programme for Dar es Salaam at Diakonie Hamburg.  

    Regine Heß heads the department responsible for relations with East Africa and the Horn of Africa at the German Federal Foreign Office and was Ambassador to Tanzania from 2019 to 2023.  

    Dr. Henrik Maihack leads the Africa Department at the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. 

    Richard Shaba works in Tanzania in the area of development cooperation in Tanzania and is involved in the Dar es Salaam–Hamburg city-twinning programme.  

    Moderator:  Dr. Julia Grauvogel is a Senior Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute for African Studies. 



    Address

    German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Neuer Jungfernstieg 21, 20354 Hamburg, Hamburg

    Language

    German

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