West African nations rename common currency, sever its links to France
7 years ago(1st row up, from L) Liberian President, George Weah, Burkina Faso President, Roch Marc Christian, Gambia, Adama Barrow, (5th from Left) Sierra Leone Julius Maada Bio, (3rd from right) Ghana President, Nana Akufo-Addo, (2nd right) Benin President, Patrice Talon, (Right) President of African Development Bank, Akinwunmi Adesina (2nd Row Down, From L) Guinea President, Alpha Condé, Togo, Faure Gnassingbe, former Nigerian Head of State, Yakubu Gowon, Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari, President of Ecowas Commission, Jean-Claude Kassi Brou, Chairman, ECOWAS, Mahamadou Issoufou,Ivory Coast Alassane Ouattara, Cape Verde, President Jorge Carlos Fonseca, President of Senegal, Macky Sall, and United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa and Sahel, Mohammed Ibn Chambas pose for a family picture at the fifty-sixth ordinary session of the Economic Community of West African States in Abuja on December 21, 2019. (Photo by Kola SULAIMON / AFP)
Eight West African countries Saturday agreed to change the name of their common currency to Eco and severed the CFA franc's links to former colonial ruler France. The CFA franc…