[2] She was married to Balla Keïta, Minister of Education under the Houphouët Boigny administration in Côte d’Ivoire, who was killed in 2002.
[3][4] Bocoum travelled to Burundi in 2003 as United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in the country.
[2] She was appointed as United Nations Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in the Central African Republic (CAR) in 2014.
[1] She then travelled to CAR to investigate human rights abuses such as sexual violence and accusations of witchcraft.
[2] She called upon both the government of CAR and the international community to take action to prevent human rights abuses in the country.