CategoriesChad News and ViewsOn May 9, 2024, the National Electoral Management Agency (ANGE) declared provisional results, announcing Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno, MIDI, as the winner of the May 2024 elections with 61.03% of the votes, followed by Masra with 18.53%, and Pahimi Padacké with 16.91% of the votes. While Masra proclaimed himself as the winner and contested the […]
CategoriesNews and Views South AfricaThe 2024 elections will be South Africa’s 7th National and Provincial elections marks the year that South Africa celebrates 30 years of democracy. While democracy as a set of social practices appear to be flourishing, the record on the performance of successive dominant party democratic governments with the African National Congress (ANC) at the helm, […]
CategoriesNews and Views South AfricaArtificial Intelligence, or AI, is the new buzz term. It is the new buzz term not just for the elections, but for how it is projected to change the way the world of work will change, how jobs will be done, and the changing ways in which humans interact with technology. So, what is meant […]
CategoriesNews and Views South AfricaThe 2024 national and provincial elections in South Africa takes place under a slightly revised electoral system, following the Constitutional Courts ruling of 2021 mandating that Parliament must devise a new electoral system, one that accommodates independent candidates. Following a process of consultations, including the establishment of a ministerial advisory committee on the electoral system, […]
CategoriesLiberiaThe Bigger PictureOn February 9, 2024, the National Elections Commission (NEC) of Liberia announced vacancies for a Senate seat in Nimba County and a House of Representatives seat in Grand Gedeh County. These vacancies arose due to the outcomes of the 2023 Presidential and Legislative Elections and the unfortunate incident that happened on December 4, […]
CategoriesLiberia News and Views South AfricaAs we navigate the ever-evolving landscape of digital media and gear up for the 2024 South African General Elections, it is crucial to recognise the dangers that disinformation poses to the core of our democratic process. Disinformation polarises communities, misleads voters, and erodes trust in public institutions, and during election periods, electoral institutions, and processes, […]
CategoriesChadThe countdown to the Chad elections has begun. The country heads inexorably towards May 6th, the date of the presidential election in Chad. The entire country is gearing up for the launch of electoral campaigns, a period where political aspirations clash, societal projects take shape, and every voter seeks to discern the most promising voice […]
CategoriesLiberiaLiberia is on the verge of conducting pivotal by-elections, scheduled for April 23, 2024, for a Senatorial seat in Nimba County and a Representative seat for District #1 in Grand Gedeh County. Nimba County, the country’s second-largest Senatorial constituency in number of registered voters with over 300,000 and is at the forefront of national political […]
CategoriesSouth Africa News and ViewsSouth Africa’s 2024 National and Provincial elections are scheduled to take place on the 29th of May. These elections represent thirty years of democracy as well as thirty years of uninterrupted African National Congress (ANC) governance nationally and in most provinces. A raft of opinion polls speculate that this uninterrupted ANC governance may change nationally, […]
CategoriesChadThe Constitutional Council of Chad has made the definitive list of candidates for the 2024 presidential elections public. The electoral process, framed by the timetable set by the National Agency for the Management of Elections (ANGE), received candidate dossiers from the 6th to the 15th of March 2024. Of the 20 initial candidates, the Constitutional […]
