The currency of Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Togo.
The currency of Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon.
1My assistant said his own monthly wage should be 7 million CFA francs.
2The CFA franc zone is remarkably diverse ethnically, lingually, culturally, politically, and economically.
3The CFA franc is at risk due to internal imbalances among the economies of the zone.
4An equivalent experiment, involving the CFA franc, is still going on in the Francophile part of Africa.
5Costs are in CFA francs unless stated.
6This has driven up prices for goods paid for in West African CFA francs and crushed cross-border trade.
7Its CFA franc is fixed at 655.957 to the euro.
8"The Economist" reported recently a shortage of small denomination CFA franc notes.
9Now that I have managed to bring my cocoa here today, the price has gone down to 720 CFA francs.
10But an ECOWAS monetary union could constitute a serious - and more economically coherent - alternative to the CFA franc zone.
11Including food, lodging and bribes, migrants will spend some 250,000 CFA francs just to cross Niger, he said.
12Those manufacturing thinner bags risk six months in prison or 20 million CFA francs ($34,000) in fines.
13The same amount of maize cost 25,000 CFA francs in July, up from 19,000 CFA the month before, according to SIMA.
14Lavagne also complained that his annual salary of 132 million CFA francs about (158,650 pounds) has not been paid.
15The combined value of all sole-source procurement during the three years was about 500 billion CFA francs or nearly $1 billion.
16While a manufactured toothbrush can cost upwards of 300 CFA francs (60 cents), a chew-stick costs only 25 or 50 CFA.