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More than four billion voters heading to polls

Is 2024 democracy’s biggest test?
This busy calendar of elections is as extraordinary for the diversity of nations and peoples participating as it is for its huge scale, according to Nicholas Reece, principal fellow at Melbourne School of Government at the University of Melbourne in Australia.
This year is going to be democracy’s biggest year ever. In a remarkable milestone in human history, over four billion people – more than half of the world’s population across
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Nam 2.22 SAME | Oryx Properties Ltd 12.1 UP 1.70% | Paratus Namibia Holdings 11.99 SAME | SBN Holdings 8.45 SAME | Trustco Group Holdings Ltd 0.48 SAME | B2Gold Corporation 47.34 DOWN 1.50% | Local Index closed 677.62 UP 0.12% | Overall Index closed 1534.6 DOWN 0.05% | Osino Resources Corp 19.47 DOWN 2.41% | Commodities: Gold US$ 2 928.33/OZ UP +0.77% | Copper US$ 4.76/lb UP +1.90% | Zinc US$ 2 852.50/T DOWN -0.11% | Brent Crude Oil US$ 75.69/BBP UP +0.48% | Platinum US$ 1 038.21/OZ UP +0.10%