Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Cooperation Bedouma Alain Yoda of Burkina Faso

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

Yoda was then Economic and Financial Adviser to the President of Burkina Faso, Thomas Sankara, from October 1985 to October 1987, as well as Director-General of the Naganagani air transport company from August 1986 to 1992.

Yoda was elected to the Assembly of People's Deputies in the May 1992 parliamentary election as a candidate of the Rally of Independent Socialists (RSI) in Boulgou; he was the only RSI candidate to win a seat.

Yoda was re-elected to the National Assembly in the May 1997 parliamentary election, this time as a candidate of the ruling Congress for Democracy and Progress (CDP), and after that election he was appointed to the government as Minister of Transport and Tourism on 10 June 1997; later, on 12 November 2000, he was moved to the position of Minister of Trade and the Promotion of Business and Crafts.

Yoda was again elected to the National Assembly in the May 2002 parliamentary election, and following that election he was appointed as Minister of Health on 10 June 2002.

In the May 2007 parliamentary election, Yoda was elected to the National Assembly as a CDP candidate in Boulgou Province.

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 Bassol.