At the end of a virtual summit of heads of state on Friday, February 9, 2024, the Central African Yvon Sana Bangui was appointed governor of the Bank of Central African States (BEAC).

Yvon Sana is originally from Lobaye, a region in the southwest of the country. He started, would have started his professional career as a data engineer for a telephone operator, taught at the University of Bangui, before joining BEAC. , nearly 20 years ago as a senior management officer. He worked his way up until he became Director of Information Systems at the Bank in 2017. He succeeds the Chadian Abbas Mahamat Tolli, whose term of office was marred by difficulties within the institution until a dispute over the date of the end of his term of office spread out in the public arena a few days ago