In the wake of President Macky Sall's announcement that he will not stand for a third term, people in Dakar express relief, hailing a "wise measure" on Tuesday (Jul.4).
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Sall had until now remained coy about his ambitions, stoking tensions over whether he would use a constitutional revision to argue he could extend the country's traditional two-term maximum.
