Recently, I watched a podcast of a former French official of the Quai d'Orsay denouncing the perpetuation of French colo ...

France’s financial control over the African nations is a relic of a shady past. Only African initiatives imagined and ...

After Côte d’Ivoire’s President Alassane Ouattara announced on 21 December 2019 in Abidjan that the CFA franc is nearing its end and set to be replaced by the Eco, people in Africa’s Franc Zone began ...

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 ...

At no point in history has the CFA franc - the name of a colonial currency used in west and central African countries belonging to the franc zone - been closer to its demise. Senegal has ...

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 ...

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, ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...