Extreme Franchising: Bringing RadioShack to Afghanistan
July 16th, 2013
Via Businessweek, an interesting look at Radio Shack’s efforts to enter Afghanistan: The next time you stroll through downtown Kabul, you might be able to buy batteries from a RadioShack (RSH) outlet, the result of a new effort by the U.S. to shore up Afghanistan’s economy: selling American franchises to Afghan entrepreneurs. The U.S. has […]
Read more »Malawi: Working To Attract Investment
July 16th, 2013
Courtesy of Ventures Africa, a report on Malawi: Did President Joyce Banda recently win the Nobel Peace Prize? It may appear as such with her current world tour. Banda is president of the fairly under-the-radar Malawi. She is the East African country’s first female president and only the second in Africa after Liberia’s Ellen Johnson […]
Read more »Somalia’s Somewhat Friendly Skies
July 12th, 2013
Courtesy of the New York Times, an interesting look at the nascent Somali airline industry: Aden Abdulle International Airport, Mogadishu, September 2011. One recent morning at the start of the Kenyan rainy season, I boarded a shuttle bus at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. At a distant corner of the tarmac, we stopped before an […]
Read more »Somaliland: The East African Country That Isn’t
July 9th, 2013
Via Environmental Graffiti, an interesting look at Somaliland: A farmer near Dhagax Khoure, a rock art site When you think of Somalia, your mind probably conjures up images of a poverty-stricken, war-torn and lawless state – a place populated by pirates and bloodthirsty warlords, as seen in news bulletins. Somalia’s neighbor Ethiopia doesn’t fare all […]
Read more »South Sudan’s Economy: A Race Against Time
July 9th, 2013
Via Al Jazeera, a report on South Sudan’s economic challenges: South Sudan’s current oil reserves may only last a decade from now and economic diversification is needed [AFP] A heavy reliance on oil revenue needs to be urgently rectified by South Sudan’s government, analysts say, with the potential of the country’s promising agriculture sector one […]
Read more »Iran and Sudan Begin to Execute Moves to Dominate Central & Western Africa
July 8th, 2013
Via Oil Price.com, an interesting look at Iranian and Sudanese efforts to dominate central & western Africa: The Central African Republic has become a key player, working under Sudanese and Iranian direction, in jihadist action, geared to take advantage of the West’s declining influence in Western and Central Africa, even if it challenges the interests […]
Read more »Focusing primarily on The New Seven Sisters - the largely state owned petroleum companies from the emerging world that have become key players in the oil & gas industry as identified by Carola Hoyos, Chief Energy Correspondent for The Financial Times - but spanning other nascent opportunities around the globe that may hold potential in the years ahead, Wildcats & Black Sheep is a place for the adventurous to contemplate & evaluate the emerging markets of tomorrow.