Alain Bédouma Yoda

Yoda was born in Komtoèga, and after studying in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, and France, he joined the civil service in 1978.

Yoda was re-elected to the National Assembly in the May 1997 parliamentary election,[1][2] this time as a candidate of the ruling CDP,[2] and was appointed to the government as Minister of Transport and Tourism on 10 June 1997;[4] later, on 12 November 2000, his portfolio was changed to the Minister of Trade and the Promotion of Business and Crafts.

[9] Yoda was later moved to the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Regional Cooperation in the government named on 3 September 2008, replacing Djibril Bassolé.

[10] After holding a succession of ministerial portfolios for nearly 14 years, Yoda was dismissed from the government on 21 April 2011.

When the new legislature convened in late December 2012, Yoda was designated as head of an ad hoc commission composed of 35 deputies that was given the task of drawing up the National Assembly's rules and procedures for the new parliamentary term.