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Abdou Diouf (b. September 7, 1937) was the second President of Senegal (1981 - 2000).
He was made prime minister in 1970 and, on January 1, 1981, he became president on the retirement of Léopold Sédar Senghor. He was re-elected in 1983 and 1988, and in 1993 he was elected to a 7-year term in Senegal's first multiparty elections.
He lost the elections of 2000 to long-time opposition leader Abdoulaye Wade and peacefully handed power to his successor on April 1 of that year.
