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Dioncounda Traore

Dioncounda Traore (23 February 1942-) was President of Mali from 12 April 2012 to 4 September 2013, succeeding Amadou Sanogo and preceding Ibrahim Boubacar Keita.

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Dioncounda Traore was born in Kati, French Sudan in 1942, and he was educated in the Soviet Union, Algeria, and France before working as a teacher and union organizer. He took part in the democracy movement which resulted in Moussa Traore's overthrow in 1991, becoming a leader of the ADEMA-PASJ party and serving as Foreign Minister from 1994 to 1997. He went on to serve as President of the National Assembly from 2007 to 2012, when, in the aftermath of the 2012 Malian coup d'etat, he was named as interim President in a deal between ECOWAS and military ruler Amadou Sanogo. He left office in 2013.

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