The curse of long-term presidents in Africa

Friday, February 10, 2023 | 190 Views |

There is mounting concern in Africa about a lack of leadership as well as an increasing trend of hard-won democratic rights being reversed.

One way this is being done is through presidential term limits being abandoned, or extended. This in turn is leading to a reemergence of authoritarian politics, and political violence.

Many leaders from countries such as Rwanda, Togo, Gabon, Uganda, Chad, Cameroon, Djibouti, Republic of Congo, Sudan, Eritrea, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have all fiddled with term limits.

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