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Rewriting Presidential Tenure: How Constitutional Amendments Have Become a Tool of Executive Entrenchment in Africa

[Sanjna Jain is an International Law and Human Rights Fellow at the International Commission of Jurists in their Africa Regional Program] After months of deliberation, on 7 July 2026 Zimbabwe’s President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, has signed into law a constitutional amendment that will that will keep him in office until 2030, delaying the originally scheduled 2028 presidential election. The constitutional amendment fundamentally reshapes Zimbabwe’s electoral system and...