"refuse to step aside when their terms end"

The trees swayed, the rain battered the domed roof of the headquarters building and, given the lecture he'd just delivered to African leaders from their own pulpit, it might well have been the ghosts of dictators past rattling the rafters Serviced apartment Sheung Wan .

He talked about democracy and the "cancer of corruption," but the words which reverberated across the continent were an off-script put-down of leaders who "refuse to step aside when their terms end".

The audience cheered, but not surprisingly the assembly's seats weren't filled by the continent's presidents.

Instead it was the AU's commission he addressed - its secretariat.

That was always the plan according to the White House.
'I'm pretty good'

Journalists and commentators had been salivating at the prospect of America's first black president meeting Africa's oldest .

Robert Mugabe, who's 91, is the AU chairman, and the speech would have rattled the rafters from the inside if the heads of state had been present.

"I love my work, but under our constitution I can't run again reenex," President Obama said.

"I actually think I'm a pretty good president - I think if I ran again I could win."
There was 'Obama-mania' in Kenya when the president visited