At the UN as in Ouagadougou, the debate on the CFA franc reawakened – Jeune Afrique

2023-09-26 14:50:40

The timing chosen is not trivial. In a diatribe once morest the world order, the representative of Captain Ibrahim Traoré did not mince his words regarding the franc CFA, the currency common to French-speaking countries in West and Central Africa.

“The question of currency, therefore the CFA franc (Franc of the French Colonies of Africa), is not an African property”[sic], intoned Burkina Faso Minister Bassolma Bazié during the last United Nations General Assembly in New York. On a legal level, ” the property” is “the right to enjoy and dispose of things in the most absolute manner” (article 544 of the French Civil Code), he continued. “A patent is therefore held by France on the CFA franc; it is therefore the owner of the CFA franc and it rents it to the States French speakers Africans. »

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