Aïssatou Diallo 🇸🇳

Finance Writer · Dakar, Senegal

WAEMU MoMoFranc CFABCEAOCorridors XOFCommerce Chine

About Aïssatou Diallo

Aïssatou Diallo writes about money movement in Francophone West Africa. Based in Dakar, she covers mobile money across the WAEMU zone — Wave, Orange Money, Free Money — cross-border CFA franc corridors, and the BCEAO decisions that shape daily financial life for people in Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, and Burkina Faso. She follows the price war Wave triggered, the rise of interoperable instant payments, and the growing China trade pushing more West African importers to deal in yuan.

Areas of expertise

WAEMU MoMoFranc CFABCEAOCorridors XOFCommerce Chine

Editorial beat: WAEMU/Francophone West Africa, franc CFA, BCEAO, cross-border XOF, China-Africa trade.

Latest articles by Aïssatou

regulation·18 February 2026·4 min read

Mali DGCC confirms 1% infrastructure levy applies to Wave transfers

Mali's Direction Générale du Commerce et de la Concurrence (DGCC) issued a February 2026 ruling confirming that the 1% national infrastructure levy on mobile money transfers applies to Wave Mali, ending a months-long compliance dispute.

new-corridors·30 September 2025·5 min read

BCEAO launches PI-SPI - free instant transfers across all 8 WAEMU countries

On 30 September 2025, the BCEAO activated PI-SPI, a regional instant-payment rail that makes individual transfers free and instantaneous across Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Burkina Faso, Benin, Togo, Niger and Guinea-Bissau.

regulation·15 January 2024·4 min read

Togo cuts mobile money fee tax from 18% to 10%

In January 2024 the Togolese government reduced the tax applied to mobile money operator fees from 18% to 10%, lowering the cost of every Tmoney, Moov and Mixx by Yas transfer in the country.

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