Algeria has applied to join the BRICS group and submitted a request to become a shareholder member of BRICS Bank with an amount of $1.5 billion, Ennahar TV quoted Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune as saying. It added that Tebboune said at the end of his visit to China that Algeria had sought to join the BRICS to open new economic opportunities.
I thought BRICS was just an identifier for “the fastest developing economies”, but I looked it up and found they’ve started signing treaties between them. Wikipedia:
The other big news is they’re starting to use yuan to trade instead of USD.