Niger
Niger has severed diplomatic relations with Ukraine (Published Aug 07, 2024)
🇺🇦🇳🇪⚡️- Niger announced the severance of all diplomatic relations with Ukraine. The reason is the alleged “sponsor of terrorism”. Niger becomes the second country, following Mali, to end all relations with Ukraine.
Turkey
🇹🇷🇿🇦❌🇮🇱 Turkey officially joins South Africa’s genocide lawsuit against Israel in the ICJ. (Published Aug 07, 2024)
Burkina Faso
The military have pacified 69% of their national territory (Published Aug 08, 2024)
According to an Burkinabe Minister of State for Defense 🇧🇫, post mid term assessment. The military have pacified 69% of their national territory. A positive sign, in contrast to 40% in 2022. Which is when two military coups occurred. Afrikan nations should study how they have been able to neutralize terrorist, wreaking havoc in the Sahel Region. Alhamdulillah for their leadership. They needed to be studied as a potential solution to neutralizing terrorist threats.
Malaysia
Malaysia steps up de-dollarization efforts, aims to launch new currency
The Malaysian government will revisit the idea of creating an Islamic gold dinar and using it as a reserve currency to boost trade with Islamic countries and weaken the impact of the US dollar on Malaysia’s economy, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said.
The Islamic Gold Dinar, a project aimed at restoring the gold standard, was first proposed in 2001. The main objective of this initiative is to create a gold-backed international currency for use in the Muslim world.
Ibrahim added that the use of the gold dinar would give Malaysia an alternative to the dollar, which would subsequently “strengthen the power of the country’s economy”.
Earlier, Ibrahim noted that Indonesia, Thailand and China had agreed to use the Malaysian ringgit in trade with Malaysia.
OCGFC
BlackRock Q3 earnings surpass estimates, despite revenue shortfall, Even though BlackRock’s shares have seen a 10% fall since the beginning of the year, the company’s stock has surged 20% over the past year, outperforming the S&P 500 index‘s rise of 13%. (Published Oct 13, 2023)
FRANCE
‘Frexit’ demonstrators rally against France’s EU and NATO membership
SAUDI ARABIA
Saudi Arabia is demanding the establishment of a Palestinian state in exchange for normalization with Israel. https://new.thecradle.co/articles/saudi-fm-calls-for-palestinian-state-in-un-speech
GERMANY
July 6, 2024, 3:34 p.m. Source: ZEIT ONLINE The German military contingent will leave the military transport base in Niger .
As reported by Zeit, citing the German Ministry of Defence, this was a consequence of the failure of negotiations on legal immunity for German soldiers: “The base in Niamey must be closed by August 31, and the soldiers transferred back to Germany.”
Germany’s economic output is expected to drop 0.6% for the entire year in 2023, worse than the top economic research institutes projected earlier this year. https://www.disclose.tv/id/na25uijpdm/