Dioncounda Traoré

Dioncounda Traoré ( born February 23, 1942 in Kati (near Bamako, Mali) ) is a Malian mathematician and politician. He was on 12 April 2012 to September 4, 2013 President of Mali.

Biography

Traoré was born in the small garrison town of Kati, near the Malian capital Bamako later in the then colony of French West Africa. He received his education in Kati, then in Nara, Kayes and in Frejus in France. He graduated from the Lycée Terrasson de Fougères (now Lycée Askia Mohamed ) in Bamako and acquired in 1961 where the Baccalauréat. Then he studied 1962-65 in the Soviet Union at the Moscow State University at the Faculty of Foreign Languages ​​and the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics. 1965-1970 he continued his studies at the University of Algiers in the Naturwisschaftlichen Faculty continued, and graduated in 1970 with a teaching degree (Licence d' Enseignement ) from. In the following years he acquired a number of higher-education diplomas (DEA = Diplôme d'études approfondies ) for mathematics until he in 1977 at the University of Nice with the work "Le problème de l' équation de Poisson Dirichlet pour dans of domaines convexes non Bornes » to the doctor mathematics was awarded his doctorate. 1977-80 he was a professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieur in Bamako ( ensup ), an engineering school. 1980-82 he was suspended from office for his political activities. From 1982 he was professor of mathematics at the Ecole Nationale d' Ingénieurs (ENI ) in Bamako and from 1991-92 the Director.

Political career

Since about 1990, he was active in leadership positions of the political party Alliance pour la Démocratie au Mali - Parti Pan - Africain pour la Liberté, la Solidarité et la Justice ( ADEMA - PASJ ) worked and was its Chairman since 2001. 1992-93 he was Minister of Common Tasks, transport and modernization of administration in the government of Mali and 1993-94 Malian Minister of Defense. He was president of the party Alliance Alliance pour la démocratie et le progrès (ADP), in 2007 for the election of Amadou Toumani Touré campaigned for president. After the parliamentary elections in Mali in 2007 Traoré was elected President of the National Assembly. After the coup in Mali in 2012, he was appointed as a result of an agreement between the rebels under the leadership of Amadou Sanogo and the West African Economic Community (ECOWAS ) of 6 April 2012 on the transitional President of Mali.

21 May 2012 young demonstrators invaded almost without resistance into the presidential palace and beat Traoré together. The 70 - year-old suffered injuries to the head, chest and back and lost consciousness temporarily. On the day before the event, the opposition leader Amadou Sanogo had been prompted by the West African Economic Community, his allegations that he controlling most of the country to set. Traoré was then flown 23 May 2012 for further medical care in France. After two months of medical rehabilitation in France he returned 27 July 2012 back to Mali and over again took up office. On September 4, 2013 Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, the winner of the presidential election in Mali was 2013, sworn, fueling Dioncounda Traoré from.

Personal

Traoré says the West African languages ​​Soninke and Bambara and French, and partly Russian, English and Spanish. He is Muslim, married and has 7 children.