The Foreign Exchange Office has just published a circular aimed at obliging foreign exchange offices to send, without delay, reports of suspicion relating to certain currency exchange transactions to the National Financial Intelligence Authority (ANRF). The objective is to improve the effectiveness of the national mechanism for the fight against money laundering and the financing of terrorism (AML-FT) to get Morocco out of the FATF gray list as quickly as possible.

Public debt: Niger repays 1.6 billion USD in 2020

According to official data from the country's information note 2021-2022 edition published by the Umoa-Titres agency, the public debt service actually paid in 2020 by Niger amounts to 945.1 billion FCFA (about 1 USD .6 billion).

Umoa-Titres indicates that the reimbursement is made up of 71.4 billion FCFA released for the external debt, and 873.8 billion FCFA for the internal debt, including 680 billion FCFA in Treasury bonds. In 2020, the information note indicates, the debt sustainability analysis indicates that Niger faces a moderate risk of debt distress and has not recorded any external payment arrears. According to the Minister of Finance Ahmat Jidoud, the outstanding public debt is estimated at the end of December 2020 at 3,510.4 billion FCFA, or 44.8% of GDP against 2,937.31 billion at the end of 2019 and 2,523.4 billion in the same period of 2018. It is composed of 2,450.6 billion FCFA of external debt, i.e. 69.8% of the total outstanding amount or 31.3% of GDP and 1,059.8 billion of internal debt , i.e. 30.2% or 13.5% of GDP.