# Yacouba Diarra

Country Manager and Director General, Côte d’Ivoire

## Career chronology

- **Director general from 2022 according to profile; cutoff continuity not independently dated: Perseus Mining Côte d’Ivoire** — Country Manager and Director General. [Yacouba Diarra profile](<https://ivoireceo.com/portrait-diarra-yacouba-un-professionnel-au-service-du-secteur-minier/>) (Career profile)

## Education and qualifications

### Reported professional qualifications [pru-diarra-education]

As reported in sources · self reported · low materiality

A secondary profile reports doctoral and mining administration qualifications; institution and award have not been independently verified.

**Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. Credentials are reported and are not independently verified.

**Relevance:** Relevant technical or professional background.

[Yacouba Diarra profile](<https://ivoireceo.com/portrait-diarra-yacouba-un-professionnel-au-service-du-secteur-minier/>) (Professional biography and qualification)

## Industrial safety

### 2022 Yaouré contractor fatality [diarra-fatal]

June 2022 · documented · high materiality

In June 2022 a contractor employee was fatally injured at Yaouré. AIP reported Diarra expressed condolences on the company’s behalf and said authorities opened an investigation. Perseus later reported an independently led investigation concluded that an incompletely seated tyre locking ring was propelled by escaping air; it described subsequent safety actions.

**Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Diarra was described as country director; a fatality and a company response do not establish his individual responsibility.

**Relevance:** Material safety outcome in the regional portfolio.

[Yaouré workplace death](<https://news.abidjan.net/articles/709652/un-agent-de-la-mine-dor-de-yaoure-meurt-en-plein-travail>) (June 29 reporting, death, response and investigation); [2022 Sustainable Development Report](<https://perseusmining.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Perseus-2022-Sustainable-Development-Report-1.pdf>) (Fatality at Yaouré section, independently led investigation and safety response)

## Evidence gaps

- Independent verification of qualifications and professional memberships remains incomplete.

- Person-specific court, regulator, fraud and prior-employer searches are not exhaustive; open-web research is not a clearance.

- Exact appointment date and independent confirmation of the precise role at the 31 October 2026 cutoff remain incomplete.

- Original queries were limited and sometimes combined people or topics; dedicated person-by-person and prior-employer records searches, including adverse topics and outcomes, were not completed.