People group profile · PG013149
The Yaure of Côte d’Ivoire
The Yaure of Côte d’Ivoire, numbering about 56,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an Akan people descended from Baule migrants who left Ghana amid the rise of the Ashanti Kingdom in the 1700s, settling between Ivory Coast's Baule and Guro territories and adopting Mande speech, known for serrated black funerary masks.
They are an indigenous people in the Mande people cluster of the Sub-Saharan African Peoples. Their primary religion is Animism, and they primarily speak Yaouré.
Fast facts
- Country
- Cote d’Ivoire
- Population
- 56,000
- Affinity group
- Sub-Saharan African Peoples
- People cluster
- Mande
- Primary language
- Yaouré (yre)
- Primary religion
- Animism
- Strategic Progress Index
- No Longer Unreached
- Evangelical
- 2% or Greater but Less than 5%
- GSEC
- 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
- Lostness priority
- Marginally Reached People Group
- Region
- Western Africa, Africa
Where they live
Gospel status
The Yaure are No Longer Unreached, which means 2% or more are evangelical Christians. In GSEC terms, this people group is greater than or equal to 2% evangelical.
- Congregations exist Yes
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Yaure
- Pray for the churches among this group to grow in faithfulness and maturity
- Equip believers to reach the unreached peoples around them
- Send out laborers from this people to the nations
Primary religion
Animism · Ethnoreligion
75% adherents
Primary language
Yaouré · Mande family
100% speak Yaouré
Gospel resources in Yaouré
- Bible available, published 2014
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Bibles
- 1999, Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc · video, audio, text
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Yaure
- Romans 12:4–5. Pray that believers from many cultures will work together as one body so that the church is built up.
- Revelation 7:9. Pray for the day when people from this group stand before the throne with every nation, tribe, people and language.
- John 17:3. Pray that many will come to know the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom he has sent.
- Psalm 27:1. Pray that new believers will be strengthened in the face of persecution, with the Lord as their stronghold.
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