Power is sweetest in Africa

In a continent where leaders have a worrying obsession with power, Senegalese President Macky Sall has done the unthinkable; he has slashed his Presidential term from seven to five years.

That's good news. The bad news is that he reduced his term in a bid to cancel a referendum on the issue, which was slated for April 2016. The import is that Sall won't have minded hanging on for seven years had it not been for pressure from the Opposition.