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Nathalie Yamb | |
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| Born | 22 July 1969 La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland |
| 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 (to Switzerland) 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. [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]
After supporting Russian disinformation [11] [12] „which undermine or threaten democracy“, [13] Yamb was sanctioned by the European Council and banned from entering or residing in the European Union. [14] Her valuables in the EU are to be frozen. [15]
