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FAO Head Considering Bid for Senegal’s Presidency, Website Says

Jacques Diouf, director general of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, is preparing a bid to contest Senegal’s 2012 presidential election, the Dakar-based website Politico.sn said, citing Diouf’s friends and family members that it didn’t identify.

The 72-year-old ex-Senegalese ambassador to the U.S. has led the UN food aid agency since 1994, according to the FAO’s website.

To contact the reporter on this story: Drew Hinshaw in Dakar via Accra at ebowers1@bloomberg.net.

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Antony Sguazzin at asguazzin@bloomberg.net.

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