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Recent News
  • In Central Africa, traders face off with militia over extortion demands

    18:26 | 1/2/18
    Times LIVE
    Egyptian and Portuguese UN contingents patrol after a blaze which damaged 47 shops on January 17, in Bangui's predominantly Muslim PK5 quarter on January 27, 2018. more»
  • Central Africa Republic: The country with no teachers

    13:11 | 10/12/17
    BBC News
    Rivals have been fighting in the Central African Republic since 2013. In the chaos the school teachers have quietly disappeared so now parents are going through crash courses to replace them. more»
  • Sell sex or starve? Grim choices for Chad's 'ghost' girls

    22:56 | 9/11/17
    Reuters
    The teenage girl imagined life would be easier in the vast central African country where her parents were born. But she has gone from trading goods at a market in CAR to selling her body in Chad for as little as 250 CFA francs ($0.44) to men who ... more»
  • World Business Report

    07:33 | 27/10/17
    BBC News
    The BBC's Josh Thorpe speaks to those in Senegal who want to boycott the CFA Franc - formerly the French African Colonial Franc - which is still used by 14 West and Central African countries. Some view the CFA Franc's imposition as a neocolonialist ... more»
  • Protests mount against Africa's 'colonial' CFA currency

    00:56 | 23/9/17
    Deutsche Welle
    They've come to celebrate the release of Kemi Seba, a controversial activist who, together with his "Urgences Panafricanistes" movement, has staged a number of demonstrations against the CFA currency used in West and central Africa. In August, the ... more»
  • Franco-Beninese activist kicked out of Senegal for anti-CFA protest

    21:56 | 7/9/17
    africanews
    Seba was acquitted by a court in Dakar in late August after his arrest over the burning of CFA franc bank notes which he described as a symbolic act aimed at “exposing the wrongs of FranceAfrique”. more»
  • Senegalese activist behind burning of CFA franc freed by Dakar court

    21:22 | 30/8/17
    africanews
    The CFA franc used in West and Central Africa has come under heavy criticisms in recent times. “We must do all it takes to ensure that the CFA franc is abolished for ever. Kémi Seba will keep on suffering if he remains in prison. The more he stays, the ... more»
  • Cash-Burning Activist Sets West Africa's Social Media on Fire

    06:13 | 30/8/17
    Bloomberg
    The French-Beninese national, Kemi Seba, appeared in court in Senegal in connection with a video that showed him setting a bank note of 5,000 CFA francs ($9) alight. He was arrested on Aug. 25 after the Central Bank of West African States lodged a ... more»
  • Cameroon fights pollution by turning used plastic into jobs

    06:33 | 27/7/17
    africanews
    Cheaper than other alternatives, plastic bags and bottles are popular in a place where the average income is less than 500 Central African francs (cfa) ($5) a day, and laws aimed at curbing the use and sale of disposable plastics remain ineffective. more»
  • Inside Emmanuel Macron's Francafrique

    10:52 | 25/7/17
    The Herald
    At the moment, the CFA franc is the official currency of the African Financial Community comprising eight countries within the Economic and Monetary Union of West Africa (UEMOA), as well as the Financial Cooperation in Central Africa, with six ... more»
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