Ikililou Dhoinine

Ikililou Dhoinine إكليل ظنين
President of the Comoros
Incumbent
Assumed office 26 May 2011
Vice President	Fouad Mohadji Mohamed Ali Soilih Nourdine Bourhane
Preceded by	Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi
Vice President of the Comoros
In office 2006–2011 Serving with Idi Nadhoim
President	Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi
Preceded by	Caabi El-Yachroutu Mohamed Rachidi ben Massonde
Succeeded by	Fouad Mohadji Mohamed Ali Soilih Nourdine Bourhane
Personal details
Born	14 August 1962 Djoièzi, Comoros
Political party	Baobab Movement
Spouse(s)	Hadidja Abubacarr
Religion	Islam

Ikililou Dhoinine (born 14 August 1962) is a Comorian politician who has been President of Comoros since 2011; he was a Vice-President of Comoros from 2006 to 2011.

Political career

Dhoinine won the 2010 Comorian presidential election, in which he received the most votes in the first round (28.19%). He faced Mohamed Said Fazul and Abdou Djabir in a run-off election^[1] and received 61.12% to win the Presidency. A member of the ruling party, Dhoinine was supported in the election by incumbent President Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi. Previously, he had worked in the Ministry of Finance as the Vice-President in charge of Budget and Women's Entrepreneurship.^[2] From 26 March to 31 March 2008, he was the provisional President of Anjouan, an island in the Comoros.^[3]

Dhoinine, a pharmacist by training, is the first President of Comoros from the island of Mohéli.^[4]

Dhoinine served for five years as deputy to outgoing president Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi.^[5]

At his inauguration Dhoinine pledged to "stop at nothing in the fight against corruption".^[5] As such he initiated the National Commission for the Prevention and Fight Against Corruption and the Regulatory Authority for Public Procurement to increase transparency.^[6]

Dhoinine's wife is Hadidja Abubacarr I'Dhoinine, the First Lady of Comoros.^[7]

References

1. Dhoinine leading Comoros poll News24.com, 8 November 2010
2. Members of the Government of the Union of Comoros United Nations
3. Comoros Worldstatesmen.org
4. "Comoros islanders elect Ikililou Dhoinine as president". BBC News. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
5. "Comoros profile". BBC News. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
6. "Actualité des Comores / Indice de perception de la corruption 2013 : Les Comores de mieux en mieux notées! / Al-Watwan, quotidien comorien". alwatwan.net. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
7. "African First Ladies to Start Arriving Gambia Today - Ahead of Crucial Women Forum". The Daily Observer (AllAfrica.com). 2014-05-23. Retrieved 2014-05-25.

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