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These guides are taking us to look for sacred hippos in Lake Tengrla near Banfora, Burkina Faso. [caption id="attachment_5406" align="aligncenter" width="288" caption="Image seen on Aljazeera website"][/caption] The CFA is the currency used in Burkina Faso. According to Julie Owono, a Cameroonian freelance journalist and international relations consultant based in Paris " Fourteen African countries use a currency that hurts their economies and benefits their former colonial master, France."