My god jr welcome to news africa im glad you did two major elections coming up this weekend were going to look at the polls for nigeria poll in a moment but fest cynical way comment fifty seven year old president will be seeking a second term in office senegals peaceful transitions of power have been hailed as a beacon for africa a tensions are rising this time and its a problem of the expresident abdulai awadi called for a boycott on the banning of election materials reasons clashes between supporters of rival parties have left two dead and teamed up to organize votes count an important move for peace and unity and to help prevent election rigging. Busy times at the headquarters of sue new election in dhaka volunteers have been working for a week to assemble the observers kits two thousand election observers will be deployed across the country. Election observers must monitor the ballots and fill in the form noting how the ballot is progressing at the opening at midday and until the closing and the announcement of the results. On the first floor is the situation room this is where the data will arrive after observers collect it at polling stations the administrators here then responsible for the parallel vote calculation knowledge or involvement in the day the administrators will get the observer data through s. M. S. Messages these messages will be fed into the database and the managers will try to process this data analyze it so that they can see what is going well and was not going so well. Meanwhile president macky sall was making the most of the time before polls open on the last day of his Election Campaign cell toward different neighborhoods in the capital. Students have been bussed in to cheer for him they have reason to be optimistic makea cell is the front runner in the polls. Turnout in the last election seven years ago was pretty low its only fifty one percent this time around more people here seem keen to cause their vote especially young people and theyre not put off by long queues to get their voters cards. Might come up just like that in the south. In the sun this is all things and i believe i cannot even talk im so happy ive been here for three days in order to get my card. Many young voters favor one of the president s main opponents. Tensions between supporters of different candidates have been high and its a look at this is an achilles immature people we want peace for the elections and we want the winner to be respected we are a mature people and we want peace but you have overlapping our party i dont trust politicians or election administrators. Preventing any potential fraud that is soo new Elections Mission its the second time theyve organized a parallel vote count this is an example see if. You have this kind of exercise helps to ease postelection tensions. Because people get to find out everything about the elections through the observation chain and thats the lesson that we chose to employ as many citizens. Who came before we did and this is. In the last election the figures were pretty accurate they deviated only one percent from the official results for the five thousand people involved in the observation come paying the stakes are high but the volunteers here are ready to do that that. Now whats up is usually popular across africa especially in nigeria but it can be problematic to whats up fake news can spread fast making it an ideal to two money Police Voters in the upcoming election ahead of the polls on saturday we asked people on the streets of lagos how they use the social media. I use whats up every day now and then. I was out fishing. Has it been done im only like. I was out because it is easy to use and i use it to fund the kids and also get information yeah that. One will force ive heard. About it if it was to get information i think if only you would think you need to my thinking was. Not given that you see whats happening you believe i feel its out any information i see myself ask but its a shame media i know money to be thankful it will live. On for a bit. Less if i shoot then obviously. So it seems like nigerians are pretty cautious whats up uses but thats not always the case sas make shes mine professor of them across the other university of banning him whos just published a report on the use of whats up in nigeria but shes man thank you for joining us and now you call it nigerias fast whats up election why well we seen a lot of elections in nigeria and theyve often used in recent times social media but the use of whatsapp has really been gaining pace and people in many countries in africa now use whatsapp way more than they would use email weight more than they would use Text Messages or facebook missions so whatsapp is really becoming one of the dominant ways of communicating quickly and easily and at the mediate we think is one of the most important ways of communicating in nigeria so thats what makes this nigerias first whats happening. I dont seem time its being used to spread fake news why is it such a powerful tool in the spread in fake news but this too critical things one obviously works out is encrypted which means that the government or anyone else for that matter can actually tell what youre sending on whatsapp so people feel particularly protected now thats a good thing it can be used by Civil Society to promote human rights and to contest government abuse but its also a dangerous thing in the sense that people who feel that they can push out messages without actually being punished or monitored might push out things that they know were not true and are actually dangerous and of course thats one of the things that were seeing into minute now its important to say that once that doesnt invent these room straight rumors have always been an aspect of politics what it does is it helps them to circulate its a bit like if you imagine going from a situation where there were some rumors kind of laying around on the ground that bits of paper and then applying a phantoms and the found spritz them so all of the corners of the country because once out it works both in terms of the people that are on whatsapp talking to each other but also in terms of the way that whatsapp shapes the way that people talk about politics for example on radio shows with their friends in the community has a remarkably good reach swell sic news staff many a problem whats up is not going anywhere so how then do we tackle fake news spreading. This is a major challenge ala the one hand we know the political room is not going anywhere as you say whatsapp is so popular its certainly not going anywhere we see whatsapp trying to do a set of measures that will think so for example we seem to use by whats out of smaller groups that prevent people from forty messages hundreds of times weve also seen other measures by whatsapp to try and form people in to make people think about the kind of measures that theyre the kind of messages that theyre circulating that a fundamental problem here is that while most of the things whats happened doing be able to achieve is theyll make it more difficult to secularly fake news on whatsapp they will make it impossible to circulate that user wants out so people who are determined to still be able to do it i think what that means is we need to look at the other side not so much the people sending the messages but the people receiving and how can we cover those people to beat the messages more critically well know ted nickys man professor of democrats the at the university of birmingham thank you very much for the time my pleasure. Now every african or remember this nigerian or at least his voice. Is known for bringing the social message into his music new generation of musicians is following in his footsteps the project voice to rap is helping Young Artists to get their voices head and encouraging listeners to get involved and go to the polls. Rehearsals are underway at the Chocolate CityMusic Studios in lagos. These ten Young Musicians were selected from over four hundred hopefuls to join the project voice to represent which mentors up and coming artists with the social message theyve taken part in what shops aimed at promoting Political Engagement among young people. I say that its important to always speak out. And i feel like after. This is going to be a great difference because the songs that i put. Up with have spoken about but its about governance about Different Things and theres no better time to talk about it than now you know its been four years since i left the action and. You know. Its easy to remember something that is you know that happens to election. Time. For joining some of nigerias top entertainers for a series of concerts and only those with valid voters cons can attend. With elections looming engaging the countrys young population is crucial. And music theres a great way to do that say the project organizers. We have young people who are making socially cautious music for Good Governance for elections for womens participation and governance and also for the private sector and private sector integrity. Im so we can do this we must make music and train them and give them the platform to reach out some Interest Groups in the interest and good interest on the former injury as well as well so oxytocin was on hold government accountable. Music has often played an Important Role in one thousand year in elections with candidates calling on influential artists for support the voice to read project aims to get young music lovers to think for themselves about the politics they want for their country. Now on a huge fan of my favorite is go slow thats it for now from v. W. News africa you can catch all our stories on our website and Facebook Page we leave you now with these speeches of the late Afrobeat King fela kuti and joy well see you next time i thought not. He takes a personal leave us. With all the wonderful people in stories that make the game so special. For all truth. Because more than football longline hate this and. Thats what video game music sounded like thirty years ago. Todays tracks take the experience to another level. Sense to him compose a nobuo uematsu. Featured in many. Cases music is bound to keep you. Sounds good. Video game music starts february twenty fifth on d w. 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