Burkina Faso will hold vote on new constitution in March

The Sahel state of Burkina Faso will hold a referendum to usher in a “semi-presidential” constitution on March 24 next year, the election commission announced Monday. The electoral rolls would be updated ahead of the vote, said commission chairman Newton Ahmed Barry. President Roch Marc Christian Kabore promised during the 2015 election campaign to bring in a new constitution to replace the 1991 version put in place by Blaise Compaore, who had seized power in a 1987 coup. [ . . . ] If adopted, the new constitution would limit the president to two mandates and include a procedure to remove the president via the constitutional court.
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