Kerfalla Yansané is a Guinean diplomat serving as

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of the Republic of

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in the

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since 2018. A lawyer by training, he got his first position in the faculty of law at

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, and in 1985, was named Governor of the

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. He initiated various reforms in this organisation. He was dismissed in 1996 after the military uprising. In 2010, he was reappointed by the transitional government directed by Prime Minister

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and in December he was retained in his post by the new, democratically elected President,

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. He was Minister of Economy and Finance from 2010 to 2014. He was appointed ambassador on November 24, 2017. Two months later, Ambassador Yansané presented his credentials to President

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at the

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on January 24, 2018.

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