Burkina Faso’s crisis matters for the rest of Africa, too. In the next three years, no fewer than eight other African presidents — from Benin, Burundi, the Congo Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Tanzania — representing more than 180 million people, are nearing the end of their constitutional terms in office. All of them, in a sort of revenge of personal rule over democratic accountability, appear to be either toying with the idea of extending their ride or already hard at work doing so.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 19:37:03 +0000
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