[1][2] She is well-known for opposing the actions of France in Africa, which she and others describe as colonial.
[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.
[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.