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Press Conference with Cyril Ramaphosa at the World Economic Forum in 2016 in Kigali, Rwanda. Image by World Economic Forum on Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 DEED). On May 29, South Africans will cast their votes to elect a new president. To grasp the current political terrain in South Africa, this article offers a curated selection of informative sources to keep you abreast of the upcoming elections and South African news. Situated in the southernmost part of Africa, South Africa shares borders with six other African nations(Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Eswatini and Lesotho) and boasts a ...
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Agbéyomé Kodjo; Screenshot from the Tv5monde YouTube Channel It has become increasingly common for opponents of the Togolese regime to live out their lives in exile. That’s to say, in hiding far from home until their death for political reasons. The latest of these was Agbéyomé Kodjo, who died in Ghana on March 3, 2024. Although there are no exact figures for the number of Togolese citizens living in exile, a few leading names stand out. In March 2021, political activist and opponent of President Faure Gnassingbé‘s regime, Foussena Djagba, died in Ghana following a short illness. On January 9,...
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Yaya Dillo Djerou, dressed in white. Screenshot from the video “Tchad : l'opposant Yaya Dillo tué” on the TV5MONDE Info YouTube channel. Fair use. In Chad, the death of political opponent, Yaya Dillo Djérou, just two months ahead of the 2024 presidential elections has been a major setback for the Chadian opposition. On February 27, 2024, the National Election Management Agency (ANGE) announced that Chadian citizens would elect their next leader at the presidential elections on May 6, 2024. These elections should mark the end of the transition period that began with the death of president Idris...
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Paul Amegakpo, president of the Tamberma Institute for Governance (ITG) based au Togo. Photo by Jean Sovon, used with permission. Originally scheduled for April 20, 2024, Togo is getting ready to hold its combined legislative and regional elections on April 29, 2024. As this will be the first regional election to be held under the decentralization process, this election will be a first for this country of over nine million inhabitants. Togo is divided into five administrative regions and has 113 members of parliament elected for a six-year term (including the April 2024 elections). Following t...
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PTI Chairman Imran Khan in June 2023. Image via Wikimedia Commons by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. (CC BY 3.0). On April 1 this year, a Pakistan court suspended former Prime Minister Imran Khan's 14-year jail sentence for illegally selling state gifts given to him by foreign dignitaries while in office. He was sentenced alongside his wife Bushra Bibi, on January 31, 2024, a week before the February 8 general elections, which Khan's party claims were rigged. Earlier, on February 3, 2024, Khan and his wife received a seven-year jail sentence for breaching Islamic marriage laws. Khan, who has been de...
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Image created using Dalle-3 by OpenArt. Nowadays, almost anybody can create audio or video recordings of celebrities or regular people acting and talking in ways they never would have by using simple, widely accessible artificial intelligence (AI) software. The rights of the people whose voices and images are being appropriated will need to be more seriously protected. Big tech companies have teamed up in a historic attempt to stop the misuse of AI in the upcoming elections throughout the world. Deepfakes continue to develop and each time with better quality, more convincing, and closer to rea...
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Image by Arzu Geybullayeva There have been many “gates” in the history of global news, but not yet a “lobster gate.” At least, not until the members of Turkey's ruling Justice and Development party (AKP) landed in a lobster-related scandal this week. Amid the deepening cost of living crisis in Turkey, ruling party MP Şebnem Bursalı found herself at the heart of public criticism when she posted a photo of a lobster dish during her trip to Monaco. Another party member, Salih Kahraman, also shared a photo of himself on social media celebrating his birthday with a lobster dish at the center of the...
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Ilustration made by Connectas. Used with permission. This article was written by Cristian Ascencio and published in CONNECTAS on March 20, 2024. An edited version is republished in Global Voices under a media partnership. The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, does not like to compete. When he sees an electoral threat, he imposes sanctions or new rules on its adversaries. He doesn't let go of the ball of power. It even seems like he would rather puncture it than risk losing the match. Faced with this scenario, there is an opposition that has historically struggled uniting and standing up ...
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The Supreme Court of India. Image via Wikipedia by The Telegraph India. CC BY-SA 4.0. The Indian Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision on February 15th, 2024, striking down the controversial Electoral Bond scheme as unconstitutional. Despite facing staunch opposition from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the apex court upheld principles of political equality, election transparency, and voter rights in its judgment. Electoral Bonds were introduced as a method for funding political parties in India through the Finance Act of 2017. On October 31, 2023, a Constitution Bench compris...
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Photo by Dibakar Roy from Pexels. Used under a Pexels license. India is poised for its upcoming general elections, which will take place for over a month starting from April 19, 2024. As the election dates draw near, political parties are bolstering their efforts to reach out to voters through various means. However, this time, parties are not solely relying on traditional methods like mass rallies and door-to-door campaigns. Many parties are leveraging the power of the internet and social media to maximize their outreach and engagement in the election process. In July 2018, Shivam Sankar Sing...
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