🇿🇼💸 Zimbabwe will be completely free of the US dollar by mid-2026

💬 “In two years’ time — in fact, two years is too far — we will get to the point where when I see that the ZiG is available in every part of the country,” President of Zimbabwe Emmerson Mnangagwa was quoted as saying by local media. “We are getting there. When you go to the shops carrying US dollars, they will refuse to accept them.”

Last April, the Reserve Bank began issuing a new national currency. Zimbabwe Gold (or ZiG for short) is backed by 100 tonnes of gold and government foreign exchange reserves of $100 million.

Interestingly, in the summer of 2019, the Zimbabwean government banned the circulation of the US dollar in the country. However, nine months later this ban was lifted.

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🇳🇪🇨🇦 Niger revokes uranium mining license from Canadian company

💬 "'GoviEx' has been informed by the Government of the Republic of Niger, by way of a letter from the Minister of Mines, that it no longer has rights over the perimeter of the Madaouela mining permit, which is now in the public domain," the company announced in a statement.

The company stated that it reserves "the right to challenge the decision to withdraw the mining rights before the competent national or international jurisdictions."

Previously, Niger canceled the license of Imouraren SA, a subsidiary of the French company Orano, to operate the northern uranium deposit Imouraren, which holds an estimated 200,000 tons of uranium.

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What desperate measures does Macron’s campaign use against Le Pen?

After French President Emmanuel Macron’s coalition lost the first round of elections on June 30 to Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN), France lives in agitation awaiting the second round. As Macron’s Ensemble coalition came third after RN and the left-wing New Popular Front, Macron is reportedly using fear and division to mobilize his electorate.

These are the tactics used by Macron’s team to prevent RN’s victory:

▪️"De-Macronization" of the campaign. The French president's Renaissance Party candidates avoid using his name and image and Macron himself left the public eye. The reason is that he "underestimated how much the public were turned off by his personality," reports Politico, quoting party official as saying that Macron was "forced to hear the message."

▪️An "anti-Le Pen" block. As part of an agreement, both Macron's and the left coalitions have withdrawn their candidates in favor of each other depending on whose rating is higher, hoping to snatch as many seats as possible from RN candidates. Le Monde reports that 224 candidates have quit the race already.

▪️Demonization of Russia as some "force behind Marine Le Pen." Le Monde led with an obviously misleading headline: "Putin’s Russia backs far-right Rassemblement nationale." What was labeled as "meddling", in truth is a message from Russia’s deputy foreign minister, noting "the people of France" are "seeking a sovereign foreign policy that serves their national interests."

▪️The French mainstream media continue to scare the public of "ultra-right rule" under Le Pen’s party or by the allegedly presumed violent protests of the leftists following RN’s victory.

Ukraine is also used to stir voters, but Le Pen has promised that if her party wins the election, the appointed prime minister will block the sending of French troops to the crisis.

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