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Sierra Leone in danger of going to war again

Sierra Leone President, Ernest Bai Koroma PHOTO:COURTESY

The tendency to hang onto power despite constitutional time limits remains a problem in Africa. In Uganda, for instance, President Yoweri Museveni changed his country's constitution to stay much longer in power.

 Across borders in Rwanda and Burundi, the situation is the same but while the changes in Burundi resulted in bloodshed and political persecution in Uganda, Rwandans appear to have taken them into their strides.
 

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