The franc was introduced at par with the French franc.

Uses either the West African CFA franc or Central African CFA franc (C.F.A.).

Decolonizing the Franc Zone

Another devaluation of the CFA franc today might deflate France s debts to the franc zone and boost its African based export industries, but it would worsen the franc zone countries miseries.

Madagascar

Tabataba (Madagascar, 1988)

Raymond Ranjeva (Madagascar)

Vonimbolana Rasoazanany (Madagascar)

Raymond Ranjeva (Madagascar)

Even Switzerland is intervening to weaken the franc.

The franc is the currency of French Polynesia.

Abstaining Armenia, Belarus, Madagascar

Africa Angola, Burundi, Madagascar

With the same desire to honor and archive Madagascar's history, two Facebook pages are archiving vintage pictures of the cities and the Malagasy people Madagascar Hier (Yesterday's Madagascar) and Il était une fois Madagascar (Once upon a time in Madagascar) .

Since 1945, it has been part of the CFP franc.

(Photo credit L'Express de Madagascar)

Overcoming cyclone together in Madagascar

Antandroy dancers in southern Madagascar

Noro Vololona HARIMISA RAZAFINDRAKOTO (Madagascar)

History The franc became the currency of Rwanda in 1916, when Belgium occupied the previously German colony and the Belgian Congo franc replaced the German East African rupie.

The Battle of Madagascar was the British campaign to capture Vichy French controlled Madagascar during World War II.

History The franc became the currency of Burundi in 1916, when Belgium occupied the former Germany colony and replaced the German East African rupie with the Belgian Congo franc.

But the franc zone countries did not fare nearly so well.

In 1999, the Euro was introduced to replace the French franc.

The base colours of the new notes were kept similar to the old ones, except that the 20 franc note was changed from blue to red to prevent a frequent confusion with the 100 franc note, and that the 10 franc note was changed from red to yellow.

People affected by floods in Madagascar.

Diana is a region in Madagascar.

Africa Angola, Burundi, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mauritius

Vice President Mr. Raymond Ranjeva (Madagascar)

The CFA franc is convertible in euros and freely transferable to France, whose companies control the lion s share of the franc zone s private sector and receive most of its public contracts.

In 1945, Switzerland joined the Bretton Woods system and pegged the franc to the U.S. dollar at a rate of 1 4.30521 francs (equivalent to 1 franc 0.206418 grams of gold).

The franc zone is, in fact, an appendage of the French economy.

It was the largest plunge of the franc ever against the euro.

22 Communauté financière du Pacifique franc (CFP fr) 1 euro 119.2 CFP.

Flood in Madagascar via Tsimoka Gasikara Wake Up Madagascar is a citizen movement that started during Madagascar's political stalemate in 2010.

Food distribution in Antananarivo, Madagascar via Wake Up Madagascar The Weselfie2015 project was launched by two university students from Reunion Island.

Abstaining Madagascar, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Tuvalu

Below are the videos from Antanannarivo, Madagascar

Longirostrine S. baroni Madagascar from the Bathonian.

Officer of the National Order of Madagascar

The CFA franc was sharply devalued in 1994, and outstanding debts were reduced.

Rignieux le Franc is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France.

On January 1, 2008, the franc was valued at 1,129.40 per US dollar.

It is responsible for Swiss monetary policy and for issuing Swiss franc banknotes.

Inundations in Antananarivo, Madagascar via MiranaPriscilla on twitter