Rwanda has announced that a referendum will be held next week on a constitutional amendment allowing President Paul Kagame to stand for a third term (see 09:02 post).
The amendment makes an exception for Mr Kagame, allowing him to run for a third seven-year term in 2017.
However, even that is not the end of the story. A new limit of two five-year terms would be introduced after that and Mr Kagame would be eligible to run for those as well.
This means that in theory he could be in power until 2034 - which is 40 years since the end of the genocide in 1994.
He's been credited with rebuilding Rwanda since then but, opponents say, he's become increasingly intolerant of dissent.
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