There was quite a kerfuffle following President Kagame's last visit to Uganda in December 2011. The hoo-ha that played out over the airwaves, news pages and Twitter had nothing to do with the trip per se - relations between Presidents Kagame and Museveni have been warming over the past six months and such visits are becoming the norm - but rather with repeated questions about presidential term limits in Rwanda.
Amending the constitution to lift term limits is a relatively new trick in the handbook of institutional manipulations. President Museveni, together with the Ugandan parliament, steamrolled right through term limits in 2005, paving the way for a 30-plus-year reign for the former rebel leader. By the time Uganda marks its Jubilee in October of this year, just a few months after Rwanda's 50-year celebration, Yoweri Museveni and the National Resistance Movement will have held power for over half of the post-independence period.
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