Africa: What Happened to the Third-Term Debate?

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It was whispered in the corridors of the Sandton Convention Centre, muttered under his breath by a former president and referred to (jokingly?) by Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe.

However, at this week's African Union (AU) Summit, the third-term bids by Africa's presidents - one of the major threats to stability on the continent - remained the elephant in the room.

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