fantastic right. as they set out to save the environment. they have learned from one another. and work together for a better future. looking for g.w. and. this is the news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes. on politics nigerians get ready to go to the days of presidential elections to find out how the spread of fake news on what affects their results also coming up tensions are hot to go head to the polls on sunday come to peace nineteen of the votes are counted.

mike jr welcome to news africa i'm glad you did two major elections coming up this weekend we're 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 senegal's fees for transitions of power have been hailed as a beacon for africa but tensions are rising this time and it's a problem of the ex-president abdulai awadi called for a boycott on the burning of election materials recent 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. the. busy times at the headquarters of soon 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 cell 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 it's only fifty one percent this time around more people here seem keen to cast their vote especially young people and they're not put off by long queues to get their vote as cards. come out of the system. the old innocent is the senate bill and i cannot even talk i'm so happy i've been here for three days in order to get my card over. many young voters favor one of the president's main opponents those months on call tensions between supporters of different candidates have been hi this is the son of god he's a mature 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're overlapping our party i don't trust

politicians or election administrators. preventing any potential fraud that is soo new elections mission it's the second time they've organized a parallel vote count this is an example see if. this kind of exercise helps to ease post-election tensions. because people get to find out everything about the elections through the observation chain that's the best and that which also employs many citizens. ok in 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 campaign the stakes are high but the volunteers here are ready to do that that. now what's up is usually popular across africa especially in nigeria but it can be problematic to what's up think news can spread fast making it an ideal two to money

believes 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. phone. i use what's up every day now and then it is. i was out fishing. is a bit of a moan like. i was out because it is easy to use and i use it to calm the kids and also get information yet it. gave one little or i just heard. about it if it was to get that information i think if only you would think you need to my thinking. not everything that you see was that you believe i feel it's out any information i see

myself ask but as a shy media i know money to be what i think it was a plot. for every. post i shoot the numbers. so it seems like nigerians are pretty cautious what sub uses but that's not always the case says nick she's mine professor of them across the at the university of banning him who's just published a report on the use of what's up in nigeria she's man thank you for joining us and now you call it nigeria's fast what's up election why well we seen a lot of elections in nigeria and they've 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 what's out way more than they would use email weight more than they would use text messages or facebook missions or so whatsapp is really becoming one of the dominant ways of communicating quickly and easily and at the mediate we

think it's one of the most important ways of communicating in nigeria so that's what makes this nigeria's first what's appalachian. i did say in time it's being used to spread fake news why is it such a powerful tool in the spread in fake names well there's two critical things one obviously works out is encrypted which means that the government or anyone else for that matter can't actually tell what you're sending on whatsapp so people feel particularly protected now that's a good thing it can be used by civil society groups to promote human rights and to contest government abuse but it's 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 that's one of the things that we're seeing into minute now it's important to say that once that doesn't invent these room straight rumors have always been an aspect of politics what it does is it talks and to circulate it's 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 fan to them and the found spritz them so all of the corners of the country because what's 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 is that many a problem whatsapp is not going anywhere so how then do we tackle think new spreading. this is a major challenge ale the one hand we know the political loom is not going anywhere as you say whatsapp is so popular it's certainly not going anywhere we see whatsapp trying to do a set of measures that will think so for example they seem to use by what's out of smaller groups that prevent people from forwarding messages hundreds of times we've also seen other measures by whatsapp to try and fool people into make people think

about the kind of measures that they're the kind of messages that they're circulating but the fundamental problem here is that while most of the things what's happened doing be able to achieve is they'll make it more difficult to circulate 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 mannheim professor of democrats the at university of birmingham thanks very much for the time my pleasure. now every african or remember this nigerian or at least his voice. is known for bringing a 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 encourage and listeners to get involved and go to the polls. rehearsal's are underway at the chocolate city music 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 they've taken part in workshops aimed at promoting political engagement among young people. i say that it's important to actually always speak out. and i feel like after. this is going to be a great difference because the songs that i put out will be more conscious of spoken about but this. is about different things and there's no better time to talk about it than now you know it's been four years since i left election and. you

know. it's easy to remember something that is you know that happens to be election period. joining some of nigeria's top entertainers for a series of concerts and only those with valid voters cons can attend. with elections looming engaging the country's young population is crucial. and music is a great way to do that say the project organizers. we have young people were making socially coarseness music for good governance for elections for women's participation governance and also for the private sector and private sector integrity. i'm so we can do this we must make music i'm trying to give him the platform to reach out and enter a speak so no interest in getting their us on the form and giraffes also 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 to support the voice to read project aims to get young music lovers to think for themselves about the politics they want for their country. more. now on a huge for the fan out of my favorites is go slow well that's it for now from d.w. news africa you can catch all our stories on our website and facebook page we leave you now with the speeches of the late afrobeat king fela kuti enjoy it we'll see you next time i thought.

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