Dioncounda Traoré
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President of Mali Acting |
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In office 12 April 2012 – 4 September 2013 |
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| Prime Minister |
Cheick Modibo Diarra (Acting) Django Sissoko (Acting) |
| Preceded by | Amadou Sanogo (Chairperson of the National Committee for the Restoration of Democracy and State) |
| Succeeded by | Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta |
| President of the National Assembly | |
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In office 3 September 2007 – 4 September 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta |
| Succeeded by | Issaka Sidibé |
| Minister for Foreign Affairs | |
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In office 25 October 1994 – 24 August 1997 |
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| Prime Minister | Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta |
| Preceded by | Sy Kadiatou Sow |
| Succeeded by | Modibo Sidibé |
| Personal details | |
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23 February 1942 Kati, French Sudan (now Mali) |
| Political party | Alliance for Democracy in Mali |
| Spouse(s) | Traore Mintou Doucoure |
| Alma mater |
University of Algiers University of Nice |
Dioncounda Traoré (born 23 February 1942) is a Malian politician who was President of Mali in an interim capacity from April 2012 to September 2013. Previously he was President of the National Assembly of Mali, a post to which he was elected in September 2007, and he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1994 to 1997. He was President of the Alliance for Democracy in Mali-African Party for Solidarity and Justice (ADEMA-PASJ) beginning in 2000, and he was also President of the Alliance for Democracy and Progress (ADP), an alliance of parties that supported the re-election of President Amadou Toumani Touré in 2007.
Traoré was born in Kati. After studying abroad in the Soviet Union, at the University of Algiers, and at the University of Nice, he taught in Mali at the Teachers' College (ENSUP) from 1977 to 1980. He was then arrested for trade union activities and sent to Ménaka in northern Mali. Subsequently, he became director-general of the National School of Engineering. He participated in the struggle for democracy that culminated with the overthrow of President Moussa Traoré in March 1991. He was a founding member of ADEMA, and at its constitutive congress, held on 25–26 May 1991, he was elected as its second vice-president, while Alpha Oumar Konaré was elected as the party's president and Mamadou Lamine Traoré was elected as its first vice-president.
After Konaré was elected as President of Mali in the 1992 presidential election, Traoré was appointed Minister of the Civil Service, Labor, and the Moderization of Administration on 9 June 1992, in the first government under Konaré's presidency. He was then named Minister of State for Defense on 16 April 1993, holding that position until he became Minister of State for Foreign Affairs on 25 October 1994. At ADEMA's first ordinary congress, held in September 1994, Traoré was elected as the First Vice-President of the party, while Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta was elected as its President.
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