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John Stone wrote:
http://www.businessreport.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=2213369

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The BCEAO bank oversees the financial operations of the eight west
African countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea Bissau, Ivory
Coast, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Togo, which operate under one
unified currency.

"The bank informs the public that all BCEAO notes of the '1992'
type ... will no longer be legal tender from January 1, 2005," the
bank said in a three-line statement posted on its website ....

The French daily Le Monde said the action amounted to an
"earthquake" aimed at "erasing the reserves of 'dirty money' and
the stashes amassed during" a series of bank robberies in Ivory
Coast from 2001-2003, where a rebellion nearly two years ago split
the country in two.

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