Kaba Nialé

[2] She was listed among “Top 50, most powerful women in Africa” by the pan-African weekly Jeune Afrique in 2015.

She obtained a baccalaureate series C in 1981 and a master's degree in economics with public economy option from the University of Abidjan-Cocody in 1989.

[5] In 1993, Nialé attended the Institute of the International Monetary Fund (IMf) in Economic Policy Management.

[3] From 2003 to 2005, she served as the Chief of Staff to the Minister of Crafts and Supervision of the Informal Sector before her appointment as General Manager of Côte d'Ivoire Tourisme from 2005 to 2007.

[3] In 2014, the National Press Council (CNP) announced that publisher Alafe Wakili and Traore Moussa, president of the UNJCI journalists’ union, tried to bribe a colleague to halt articles by popular satirical newspaper L’Eléphant Déchaîné, which accused Nialé of mismanaging government contracts.