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Key facts
- Preceded by
- Boutros Boutros-Ghali
- Succeeded by
- Michaëlle Jean
- Prime minister
- Habib Thiam Moustapha Niasse Habib Thiam Mamadou Lamine Loum
- Vice president
- Dawda Jawara
- President
- Léopold Sédar Senghor
- Born
- ( 1935-09-07 ) 7 September 1935 (age 90) , Louga , French West Africa , (now Senegal )
- Party
- Socialist Party
- Spouse
- Elizabeth Diouf
- Alma mater
- University of Dakar , Pantheon-Sorbonne University
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Nguer Malal
- Occupation
- lawyer
- Educated at
- Université Cheikh Anta Diop
- Political party
- Socialist Party of Senegal
- Languages spoken
- Wolof
- Religion
- Sunni Islam
- Image
- Abdou Diouf.jpg
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- Abdou Diouf
- date of birth
- 1935-09-07
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- Abdou Diouf
- name in native language
- Abdu Juuf
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- Abdou Diouf
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Encyclopedic overview
Abdou Diouf ( US: /ˈɑːbduː diˈuːf/ AHB-doo dee-OOF; Serer: Abdu Juuf; born 7 September 1935) is a Senegalese politician who was the second president of Senegal from 1981 to 2000.
Diouf is notable both for coming to power by peaceful succession and leaving willingly after losing the 2000 presidential election to long-time opposition-leader Abdoulaye Wade. He was also the second Secretary-General of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie from January 2003 to December 2014.
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