Rwanda.
The referendum asks for approval of a proposed amendment that would shorten presidential terms to five years rather than seven, but would also make an exception for Kagame, who has been in power since 2000. Current law requires Kagame to step down at the end of 2017. But the amendment would allow him to run for a third seven-year term and two more five-year terms after that. If he continued to win elections, it would allow Kagame to stay in power until 2034.
The referendum is forecast to pass easily.
The 58-year-old Kagame, an ethnic Tutsi, commanded the rebel force that ended the Rwandan Genocide in 1994 and ousted Hutu extremists from power.
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