biography
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| lived:
| (1935– )
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| biography:
| Senegalese politician and president (1981–2000), born in Louga, NW Senegal. After studying at Paris University he returned to work as a civil servant before entering politics, becoming prime minister in 1970, then president. In 1982 he became president of the loose Confederation of Senegambia, and was re-elected president of Senegal (1983, 1988, 1993). |
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