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The future of the CFA franc – a currency used by two west African regional blocs that collectively form the franc zone – is in the balance. This is after the recent change of government in Senegal, which comes soon after Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger announced their intent to leave the monetary arrangement. Kai Koddenbrock explains what the intent of the four countries portends for the CFA.
The Lesotho Highlands Water Project tunnel carrying water to South Africa’s economic heartland – Gauteng – will be shut down for maintenance for six months. Water economist Ifedotun Victor Aina warns that the closure could make the area’s current water crisis even worse and also affect agriculture, and calls on the government to outline what’ll be done to replace the missing water.
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Kai Koddenbrock, Bard College Berlin
Never before have four governments, including one of the regional leaders, Senegal, been simultaneously eager and ready to get out of the neo-colonial stranglehold of the CFA franc.
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Ifedotun Aina, University of Cape Town
The tunnel bringing millions of litres of water from dams in Lesotho to South Africa is to undergo a six-month repair. This could leave residents of Gauteng in South Africa short of water.
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