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In a controversial book by another well-known analyst, Abdou Latif Coulibaly, the president emerges as a powerful intellect, intense and complex, but loth to listen to advice and prone to outbursts of temper if contradicted.As a result, key decisions tend to be taken off the cuff and outside the institutions of government.

Abdou Diouf of Senegal, who accepted defeat in an election in March, was only the third African president to do so since independence four decades ago.So there are elections in Africa, but little democracy.

But he has already sacked one minister who disagreed with him in what was seen by the rest of the cabinet as a coded message: do it my way or else.The new constitution, as he promised, cuts the president's term of office from seven years to five (it was stretched when Abdou Diouf won the presidency, for the third time, in 1993).

Abdou Abdoulaye Sidibe, a member of parliament for Gao, says, "It is AQIM who have the money and the guns".The new rulers are settling in for the long term.

Twice, he tried the side door, accepting ministerial jobs in coalition governments, but he always got out in time to run against the incumbent, Abdou Diouf, in presidential elections.

His second bid was in 1983, against Senghor's hand-picked successor, Abdou Diouf, who had replaced the elder statesman when he stepped down from the presidency in 1981.

"I have had to use any spare money I have on a power generator," says a tailor, Abdou Daouda, sewing a bright blue skirt in one of many wooden shacks on a sandy street in the capital.

Abdou Diouf, his predecessor, was in power for almost 20 years.In this section Unfinished business Two terms and maybe you're out It's up to you Still an issue #AfricaTweets ReprintsThe court also said that Youssou N'Dour, Senegal's most famous musician, could not compete in the election because it could not identify enough of his supporters' signatures on his application form.

He took office last year, seeing off the country's veteran Socialist president, Abdou Diouf, at his fourth attempt.

"They do it among themselves, in closed session," said Abdou Sidibé, a parliamentary deputy from Gao, now in exile here in the capital, Bamako.

The four young men, from the village of Fafa, had been accused of holdups of passengers on buses on the Niamey-Gao route in July, said Mr. Maïga and a parliamentary deputy from the region, Abdou Sidibé.