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On a bright morning in Abuja, inside an office where official meetings often begin with pleasantries and end with photographs, something more urgent was on the table. Nigeria’s Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, and the British High Commissioner, Peter Vowles, met to discuss one of the quiet storms threatening modern…
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Election Day 2026 sounds like a phrase from a dystopian movie, the kind where artificial intelligence has taken over everything and democracy is some distant memory. But look closer, and it’s still just a Tuesday in November. It’s the same ordinary, beautiful chaos of civic life: school gyms with folding chairs, church basements with coffee stains, exhausted poll workers wearing tired smiles, elderly voters who refuse to miss their chance, and first-time voters who show up too early because they don’t want to be late. The difference this year is that OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has launched what the…
Imagine a voter waking up early, making tea, checking the news, and heading to a polling station. In South Africa, election day is more than a bureaucratic event; it is a ritual of democracy. For millions of citizens, placing a ballot in the box is an act of hope and trust. Yet behind that simple act lies a fragile web of confidence: trust in the political system, trust in the officials who count the ballots, and trust in the other side to accept the result. According to Kira Alberts, research coordinator at the Centre for Research on Democracy, it is…
