Click here for collectible banknotes! At present, 15 West African countries use the CFA as their common currency.

With this development, it is very unlikely that the West African members of the CFA zone will be too keen to abandon their attachment to their colonial masters (France) and start using the nigeria_note “ECOI”. The CFA is used in 14 African countries, split into the West African CFA and the Central African CFA. The new single currency was adopted by the ECOWAS Heads of State and Government last Saturday, in Nigeria’s capital Abuja, after decades of discussion towards achieving regional economic integration. Notably, the CFA has been linked to the French franc but switched its link to the Euro recently. ll 【$1 = Fr576.1539】 US dollar to West African CFA franc today's rate. Currency converter The converter shows the conversion of 1 US dollar to West African CFA franc as of Friday, 17 July 2020. However, the changes will only affect the West African form of the currency. Banknote World offers West Africa currency for sale to collectors looking for a piece of West Africa. Starting next January 2020, countries within the West African sub-region will be able to use a single currency called the ECO. The CFA franc is the most used currency in some African countries of West and Central Africa in the CFA franc zone, as here in Mali. Free online currency conversion based on exchange rates.