it is all happening to children. who are linked from africa and the world. your link to an option stories and discussions to new and welcome to news happening program tonight from bernie gemini from on using the z. and i would say de deputed comes to africa to join us on facebook and t w africa. this is the new news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes. on politics that's nigerians get ready to vote in some of the day's presidential elections to find out how the spread of fake news on what's up what affects the results also coming up tensions are high go ahead to the polls on sunday how come peace

contenting up the votes are counted. 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 his second term in office so the ghost peaceful transition of power has been hailed as a beacon for africa tensions are rising this time and it's a problem of the ex-president abdulai awadi called for a boycott on the banning of election materials recent clashes between supporters of rival parties have left two dead. and you teamed up to organize the parlow vote count on important school for peace and unity and to help prevent election rigging

. 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. the 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 and 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 what's 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 is pretty low it's only fifty one percent this time around more people here seem keen to cuss their vote especially young people and they're not put off by long queues to get their voters cards. come out of the. polls in the final hours of this and i didn't i cannot even told i'm so happy i've been here for three days in order to get my card but. many young voters favor one of the president's main opponents. tensions between supporters of different candidates have been high it's an achilles

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 overlap in 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 if. you have this kind of exercise helps to ease post-election tensions. because people get to find out everything about the elections through the observation chain and tell us the lesson that we should also employ as many citizens. ok 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 what's up is usually popular across africa especially in nigeria but it can be problematic to what's up fake news can spread fast making it an ideal to two 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. i use what's up every day now and then if. i was out fishing. has it been that i'm only like. i was out because it is easy to use and i use it to fund the kids and also get information gathered. and one will force i've heard. about the new because i get that information i think if only you would think of me to my present.

not everything that you see what's happened you believe i feel it's out any information i see myself ask but as a child media i know money believe me i think it was a lot. going for it. most if i shoot it on the scene. 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 but 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 this really been gaining pace and people in many countries in africa now use what's out way more than they would use e-mail weight more than

they would use text messages or facebook missions so whatsapp is really becoming one of the dominant ways of communicating quickly easily and at the mediate we think is one of the most important ways of communicating in nigeria so that's what makes this nigeria's first whatsapp alexion. i guess a time it's being used to spread fake news or why is this such a powerful tool in the spread in fake news 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 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 not actually dangerous and of course that's one of the things

that we seem to mean it 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 helps 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 phantoms and the found spritz them so all of the corners of the country because what's 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 is that many a problem whatsapp is not going anywhere so how then do we tackle fake news spreading. this is a major challenge fail 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 we 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 form people in to make people think about the kind of measures that they're the kind of messages that are circulating but the fundamental problem here is that while most of the things what's happened doing will be able to achieve is they'll make it more difficult to circulate fake news on what's out they will make it impossible to circulate that user wants out so people who are determined will 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 nicky's 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 is

social message into his music oh a 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 the listeners to get involved and go to the polls. rehearsal's are underway at the chocolate city music studios and lagos. 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 think that it's important to actually always speak out what if you have. and i feel like after. it is going to be a great difference because the songs that i put out more conscious of spoken about

but it's 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 in the kitchen and you know things that we have you know being forgotten it's easy to remember something that is you know that happened to 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 will make him socially coarseness music for good governance for elections for women's participation governments and also for the private sector and private sector integrity. well i'm so going to this witness to make music and train them and give them the platform to reach out some interest speaks in their interest and didn't

and you're also an informant you're also a arks groceries on hold government accountable. music has often played an important role in nigeria 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 that's 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 enjoy it we'll see you next time bye for now.

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