Benin adopts constitutional amendment to create Senate, extend presidential term

Benin has passed a constitutional amendment creating a second chamber and extending presidential and legislative term limits.

It’s too late for Benin’s President Patrice Talon, but the country’s National Assembly has adopted a constitutional amendment extending presidential and legislative terms from five years to seven. The change comes into effect next year. Talon has just seven months left in his second term and the two-term…