Mar-3-2024
Angola – Limits on foreign currency in or out of the country modified.
These are the new currency rules for travelers arriving or leaving Angola. Angolan and foreign residents 18 or older must...
Mar-3-2024
These are the new currency rules for travelers arriving or leaving Angola. Angolan and foreign residents 18 or older must...
Mar-3-2024
Since July 2023 foreign non-resident visitors are required to declare on arrival or departure amounts over EUR5,000 or its equivalent...
Feb-26-2024
The regimes of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger are considering leaving the Economic Community of West African States, and to...
Jan-10-2024
Many newspapers in Morocco published today details of the banknote of 200 dirhams of the new family (MAD200.4). In the...
Jan-10-2024
It seems that the presentation of the banknote of 200 dirhams of the new family (MAD200.4) is imminent. Courtesy: Gaurav...
Dec-14-2023
After several extensions, the legal tender status of old banknotes will cease on 31 December 2023. From 1 January until...
Dec-5-2023
Groups defending the Amazigh, the language of Berbers, complained about the “total absence” of Tifinagh, the Amazigh alphabet, in the...
Nov-25-2023
According to the decree authorizing Bank Al-Maghrib to issue the banknotes of the new family, these are their details:. 20...
Nov-25-2023
Bank Al-Maghrib has issued yesterday 24 November a new banknote of 100 dirhams (MAD100.6), as part of a new family...
Nov-3-2023
A YouTube posting by Mounim Abdel shows a new banknote of 100 dirhams (MAD100.6). Source: Mounim Abdel in YouTube.
Nov-2-2023
The Central Bank of Nigeria has issued on 31 October 2023 a Press Release to deny rumors that were circulating...
Nov-2-2023
According to multiple press reports the Central Bank of Nigeria has decided yesterday 1 November 2023 that the previously withdrawn...
Oct-11-2023
In August of 2018 it was reported that Banka Somaliland was planning to migrate to the use of polymer for...
Oct-4-2023
All Liberian banknotes dated before 2021 will cease to be legal tender on 31 March 2024, and will be redeemable...
Sep-22-2023
These well circulated banknotes of 10,000; 20,000 and 50,000 Somali shilin were presented for exchange to a currency dealer in...
Sep-11-2023
The Central Bank of Eswatini announced today the release of the banknote of 200 emalangeni (SZL200.5) with the new country...
Jul-17-2023
Dr Emmanuel Maluku Letter, Governor of the Central Bank of Lesotho, announced in a speech on 13 July 2023 that...
Jul-16-2023
Dr Emmanuel Maluku Letter, Governor of the Central Bank of Lesotho, announced in a speech on 13 July 2013 that...
Jun-20-2023
The Central Bank of Egypt has issued its long awaited 20 pounds polymer note (EGP20.4.) The original design was changed...
Jun-16-2023
The Central Bank of Mauritania will issue soon a banknote 0f 50 ougiya commemorative of 50 years of the creation...
Jun-15-2023
The banknotes of 200 rand of the new family (ZAR200.5) are now in active circulation. Courtesy: Gabriel’s Numismatic Market. Order the...
Jun-8-2023
The Banque de la République du Burundi has issued new banknotes of 5,000 (BIF5,000.6) and 10,000 francs (BIF10,000.3) as of...
May-10-2023
The new banknotes of 10 rand (ZAR10.8) and 20 rand (ZAR20.7) are now in active circulation. Source: Romanna.com Courtesy: Gabriel’s...
May-9-2023
A change in the Xitsonga translation of “Reserve Bank” as “Bangikulu” found in the lower left corner of the reverse...
May-3-2023
The South African Reserve Bank announced today, 3 May 2023, that it will issue new coins an banknotes. The new...
Apr-12-2023
The design of the new polymer banknotes of 20 pounds (EGP20.2) which were supposed to be issued to circulation...
Mar-28-2023
After months of chaos the Central Bank of Nigeria has decided to obey the Supreme Court ruling making old notes...
Mar-13-2023
The Central Bank of Nigeria has issued today a Press Release in which it informs that “In compliance with the established...
Mar-10-2023
According to unconfirmed reports the printing of the new regular banknotes of 2,000 dinars (DZD2,000.4), similar to the commemorative ones...
Mar-8-2023
This is the current situation in respect to the old naira banknotes of 500 (NGN500.1) and 1,000 naira (1,000.1.) ...
Mar-7-2023
Following last week’s ruling of the Supreme Court ordering all older banknotes to remain in circulation until the end of...
Mar-3-2023
The Supreme Court ordered today that the banknotes of the previous family will retain legal tender status until the end...
Feb-28-2023
The banknotes of the 1992 Series of 500 francs (XAF500.1) – 1,000 francs (XAF1,000.1) – 2,000 francs (XAF2,000.1) – 5,000...
Feb-20-2023
With Presidential elections slated for this weekend these are some of the things that happened in the last few days...
Feb-18-2023
The National Council of States, an organ of the Nigerian Government which has no executive power, but advises on policy...
Feb-18-2023
The Central Bank of Nigeria has reopened the redemption of previous banknotes of 500 (NGN500.1) and 1,000 naira (NGN1,000.1) through this...
Feb-16-2023
In a message to the nation President Buhari decreed that old banknotes of 200 naira (NGN200.1) (=USD 0.26 in the...
Feb-15-2023
The Supreme Court decided today to adjourn until next Wednesdays 22 February to decide on the demonetization of the previous...
Feb-10-2023
Abubakar Malami, Attorney General of the Federation, declared today that the Government will comply with the Supreme Court interim suspension...
Feb-8-2023
Yesterday Nigeria’s Supreme Court granted at the request of three State Governors an interim injunction to the demonetization of naira...
Feb-7-2023
The poor way in which the exchange of old for new naira banknotes has been planned and executed by the...
Feb-7-2023
The naira redesign operation snafu is getting more complicated. Other than the chaos and suffering caused by the way in...
Feb-5-2023
State governors from the All Progressives Congress, the ruling party, have meet yesterday 4 February 2023 with President Muhammadu Buhari...
Feb-4-2023
As reported today in The Nation Godwin Emefiele, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, has asked Nigerians to show...
Feb-3-2023
The Central Bank of The Gambia has reached in August 2022 an agreement with De La Rue for the printing...
Jan-29-2023
The Central Bank of Nigeria has announced today 29 January 2023 that the redemption of older banknotes, subject to limits...
Jan-26-2023
Ali Yasin Wardhere, Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Somalia, told Xinhua in a recent interview that there are...
Jan-22-2023
With only 8 working days left before they become worthless the Central Bank of Nigeria has authorized the direct exchange...
Jan-21-2023
Old pre-redenomination banknotes are still prevalent in the market. They were originally to be demonetized by end-September 2022. The date...
Jan-17-2023
Bloomberg reports that the Central Bank of Somalia plans to issue in 2024 redesigned banknotes of 1,000 shillin (SOS1,000.2). Presently...
Jan-10-2023
As of yesterday the Central Bank of Nigeria has limited cash withdrawals from bank accounts by individuals to NGN20,000 (=...