Artificial Intelligence And The Integrity Of African Elections

While the role of AI in African elections is still evolving, a small fraction of African electoral commissions are advanced in AI uptake for elections. A recent Yiaga Africa survey of electoral ... Read More

Zuma can contest elections, South African court rules

Former president Jacob Zuma can contest upcoming national elections in May ... The court’s decision will not be welcome news to the governing African National Congress party, of which Zuma ... Read More

2024 Elections

The former president’s claim ahead of a pivotal Supreme Court hearing that he was protecting the election system rather than subverting it is part of a pattern of shaping his own reality. Read More

Former South Africa leader Jacob Zuma is barred from running in elections, election authority says

JOHANNESBURG — Former South African President Jacob Zuma is ... an objection against Zuma's candidacy in the May 29 elections. In July 2021, Zuma was sentenced to 15 months in prison for defying ... Read More

Ethiopia: Submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

We write in advance of the 98th pre-session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child and its review of Ethiopia ... [20] In 2021, Human Rights Watch found that a significant number of the ... Read More

News tagged with presidential election

Media researcher Jessica Robinson has looked at the topics that trended on Twitter—now X—during the 2020 US presidential election and the Swedish parliamentary election in 2018. In her ... Read More

Ex-South African president Zuma debarred from general elections

Johannesburg: Former South African president Jacob Zuma has been disqualified as a candidate in South Africa’s general elections scheduled ... 15 months in jail in 2021 by the highest judicial ... Read More

Election Anxiety Makes South Africa Dollar Bonds the Worst in EM

Holders of South Africa’s eurobonds have suffered a 4.4% loss, a worse performance even than Senegal, where postponed elections shook sentiment. In contrast, the average return for emerging ... Read More

Former South Africa Leader Zuma Barred From Running in Elections

Former South African President Jacob Zuma is not ... upheld an objection against Zuma's candidacy in the May 29 elections. In July 2021, Zuma was sentenced to 15 months in prison for defying ... Read More