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| Kofi Annan |
He was speaking at a conference
on security in Ethiopia. Mr Annan said Africa’s progress towards stability is
continually being held back by leaders who want to stay on forever.
“I think Africa has done
well…the coups have more or less ended, generals are remaining in their
barracks, but we are creating situations which may bring them back. If a leader
doesn’t want to leave office, if a leader stays on for too long, and elections
are seen as being gamed to suit a leader and he stays term after term after
term, the tendency may be the only way to get him out is through a coup or
people taking to the streets,” he said, at the 5th Tana High-Level Forum on
Security in Africa in the Ethiopian north-western city of Bahir Dar.