France’s financial control over the African nations is a relic of a shady past. Only African initiatives imagined and ...
In the inner circles of West African sovereigntists, it is fashionable to vilify the CFA franc. Indeed, the currency of France’s former African colonies, born in the aftermath of the Second World War, ...
Recently, I watched a podcast of a former French official of the Quai d'Orsay denouncing the perpetuation of French colo ...
Although filmed just two years ago, the video of pan-African activist Kémi Séba setting fire to a 5,000 CFA franc banknote (worth around $8.43) in front of a cheering crowd in Dakar, Senegal, is ...
Venezuela’s economy has been roiled by U.S. sanctions targeting the regime of Nicolás Maduro. Despite Mr. Maduro’s efforts to ease the sanctions' bite, the country was forced to sell another $1 ...
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - West Africa's monetary union has agreed with France to rename its CFA franc the Eco and cut some of the financial links with Paris that have underpinned the region's common ...
Calls to overhaul the West African CFA franc, a currency tied to the euro and historically rooted in French colonial rule, raise a host of thorny problems, analysts say. This is brought about by the ...
La promesse d’un passage du franc CFA à l’eco revient à chaque sommet de la Cedeao, sans jamais se concrétiser. Avec l’échéance de 2027 réaffirmée à Monrovia, le Nigeria évoque désormais un lancement ...
Lorsque les États africains accédèrent à l’indépendance, il fut nécessaire de définir leurs relations monétaires entre eux, avec la France et avec le reste du monde. À l’exception de la Guinée, puis ...
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