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Benin President, Patrice Talon Orders Economic Decolonisation From France

4 years agoSat, 09 Nov 2019 17:28:46 GMT
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Benin President, Patrice Talon Orders Economic Decolonisation From France

Benin’s President, Patrice Talon, has ordered that his country’s foreign currency reserves colonially deposited in French Central Bank be immediately withdrawn.

Talon becomes the first President of a former French colony to make the move which has the potential to ruin the relationship with colonial master France.

All CFA zone countries are former colonies of France and have historically deposited their foreign exchange reserves to the Bank of France.

These reserves are insurance that guarantees the stability of the CFA and therefore the control of inflation.

According to Wikipedia, the CFA franc is the name of two currencies, the West African CFA franc, used in eight West African countries, and the Central African CFA franc, used in six Central African countries. Both currencies are guaranteed by the French treasury.

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CFA Franc countries are Cameroon, Benin, Mali, Gabon, Senegal, Republic of Congo, Chad, Cote d’Ivoire, Togo, Burkina Faso, Niger, Equatorial Guinea and Guinea Bissau.

The arrangement is thought to benefit France at the expense of her colonies and Zimbabwean diplomat Dr Arikana Chihombori-Quao was fired from her post at the African Union after she called for an end to the France-Francophone Africa relationship.

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