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At last count in early September, 3.7 million Rwandans (60% of the electorate) had signed a petition asking their president of 15 years, Paul Kagame – whose mandatory second term ends in 2017 – to run for a third term. The president claims he had no role in this effort to extend his rule, but …
Ghana’s former President John Agyekum Kufuor says people should not use his predecessor, President Jerry John Rawlings, or accept him as a measure of righteousness because the man is a hypocrite. Here are excerpts from an interview published by Africawatch in April 2010, where ex-President Kufuor explains why Rawlings continues to hurl insults at him. …