Ikililou Dhoinine is a Comorian

Comoros

The Comoros , officially the Union of the Comoros is an archipelago island nation in the Indian Ocean, located off the eastern coast of Africa, on the northern end of the Mozambique Channel, between northeastern Mozambique and northwestern Madagascar...

 politician and the current President of Comoros; he was previously a Vice-President of Comoros. Dhoinine won the 2010 Comorian presidential election

Comorian presidential election, 2010

The 2010 presidential election in Comoros was held on 7 November, with a second round on 26 December. Gubernatorial elections for each of the three main islands of Comoros were held on the same dates...

 where he received the most votes in the first round (28.19%). He faced Mohamed Said Fazul

Mohamed Said Fazul

Mohamed Said Fazul was president of the Comorian island of Mohéli from 19 May 2002 to 1 July 2007.He worked as a pharmacist and taught natural sciences at a Fomboni college until his nomination by President Azali Assoumani in March 2001 to be governor of Mohéli...

 and Abdou Djabir

Abdou Djabir

Abdou Djabir Msada is a Comorian politician and civil servant. He ran for the Presidency of the Comoros in 2010 and finished in third place behind winner Ikililou Dhoinine. Djabir was born on the island of Mohéli and worked as a civil servant in France....

 in a run-off election 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

Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi

Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi is a Comorian Islamic leader and politician, and former President of Comoros. He is popularly known as 'Ayatollah'. After easily winning the 14 May 2006 presidential election with 58.02% of the national vote, Sambi was inaugurated as President of the Union of the...

. Previously, he had worked in the Ministry of Finance as the Vice-President in charge of Budget and Women's Entrepreneurship. From 26 March to 31 March 2008, he was the provisional President of Anjouan

President of Anjouan

The President of Anjouan is the head of Anjouan, one of the three islands of the Union of Comoros. The position was firstly established in 1997 after the Declaration of independence of Anjouan...

, an island in the Comoros.

Dhoinine, a pharmacist by training, is the first President of Comoros from the island of Mohéli