Nathalie Yamb
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Born | La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland | 22 July 1969
Occupation(s) | Activist and businesswoman |
Nathalie Yamb is a Cameroonian-Swiss activist and businesswoman.[1][2] She is well-known for opposing the actions of France in Africa, which she and others describe as colonial.[3][4] She was born in Switzerland and grew up in Cameroon, then went to university in Germany.[5] In the 2010s, she helped run a political party in Ivory Coast.[1] However, she was deported in 2019 without a trial after she criticized the Ivory Coast government at a conference in Russia.[3] Yamb has been supported by Russian oligarch and mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin and she helps to disseminate pro-Kremlin propaganda.[6][7] Her anti-French activism earned her in January 2022 a ban on entry and stay on French territory, made public in October 2022.[8] Yamb participated as an "independent international observer" during 2022 sham referendums in Eastern Ukraine.[9][10]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Nathalie Yamb". Roscongress Foundation. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
- ^ Conzett, Anja (24 June 2021). ""Staatliche Entwicklungshilfe – schafft sie ab!"". Republik (in German).
- ^ a b "Swiss-Cameroonian activist deported to Switzerland". SWI swissinfo.ch. 3 December 2019. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
- ^ Publisher, A. M. C. (5 May 2023). "Nathalie Yamb: The activist fighting France's presence in the African continent". AMC. Retrieved 5 May 2023.
- ^ "Nathalie Yamb : "Ma mère est une battante, elle est ma référence "". Actu Cameroun (in French). 11 January 2020. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
- ^ https://www.lemonde.fr/en/le-monde-africa/article/2023/08/06/the-faces-of-russia-s-influence-across-the-african-continent_6082513_124.html
- ^ https://www.state.gov/disarming-disinformation/yevgeniy-prigozhins-africa-wide-disinformation-campaign/
- ^ "La France informe Nathalie Yamb de son interdiction d'entrée et de séjour sur le territoire national". rfi (in French).
- ^ https://rusieurope.eu/hidden-in-plain-sight-pro-kremlin-pan-african-influencers-and-the-threat-to-africa-s-stability-and-democracy/
- ^ https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-society/3766407-putins-friends-and-prigozhins-network-foreign-observers-in-pseudo-elections-in-occupied-areas.html