Since the start of the year, the Russian ruble has recorded the strongest growth against the U.S. dollar among all major world currencies — even outperforming gold, according to Bloomberg.

Burkina Faso plans to withdraw mining permits from some foreign companies and will seek to produce more of its own gold, junta leader Ibrahim Traore said on Saturday, without specifying which permits could be cancelled.

"We know how to mine our gold and I don't understand why we're going to let multinationals come and mine it

," Traore said in a radio address to mark two years since he seized power in a coup.

"In fact, we are going to withdraw mining permits," he said. He did not specify which permits or provide further detail.

...The statement accused opponents of the junta, backed by Western intelligence and European mercenaries, of a vast, multi-pronged destabilisation plot orchestrated from other countries including Ivory Coast, Ghana and Nigeria.... Al Qaeda-affiliated group that claimed responsibility for Barsalogho.

"Like with the most recent West African coups in Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali, and Niger, five of the six Congo Basin countries are Francophone. One of the common themes in West Africa has been strong anti-French populist rhetoric"

Russia has just put the US in geopolitical check, looking to hybridize a new gold standard with the petrodollar — rather petroruble…

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