Following The Money Behind Myanmar’s Coup
February 5th, 2021
Via The Asia Times, a look at how monetary wealth may have instigated the recent coup in Myanmar: By seizing absolute power, Myanmar coup leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing has protected his and his family’s financial interests and the military’s unscrutinized economic domination. Min Aung Hlaing spent much of his military career as a […]
Read more »Liberalization Looms for Ethiopian Telecoms
February 4th, 2021
Via African Business, a report on how one of the final frontiers of untapped growth in Africa is opening up as Ethiopia prepares to put two spectrum licences up for auction and sell a stake in Ethio Telecom: One of Africa’s most enduring telecoms monopolies is set for dramatic change in March, when the Ethiopian […]
Read more »Africell Formalizes Contract with Angola to Launch New MNO In 2021
February 3rd, 2021
Via Angola24, a report on new MNO in Angola: More than half of the countries in the Africell Group today formalized the contract with the Government of Angola to become the fourth global telecommunications operator and start offering services later this year, the company announced today. In a statement, the company said it plans to […]
Read more »Five Significant MENA Belt And Road Projects
February 3rd, 2021
Via Silk Road Briefing, a look at some significant MENA-based BRI projects: The MENA region – the Middle-East and North Africa – has also been targeted as part of Beijing’s Belt & Road Initiative, with greater interconnectivity and supply chains to much needed oil and gas reserves being put in place. The MENA region has vast […]
Read more »Afghanistan-Uzbekistan-Pakistan Railway Line Mapped Out
February 3rd, 2021
Via Ariana News, a report on a planned Afghanistan-Uzbekistan-Pakistan railway line: Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, and Pakistan on Tuesday signed an agreement for a landmark railway link aimed at bolstering trade ties between Central and South Asia. The signing ceremony for the multi-billion-dollar project took place in Tashkent, and was attended by senior officials from the three […]
Read more »China’s Pakistan Investments A Double-Edged Sword
February 2nd, 2021
Via The Asia Times, a report on how Chinese investment is unmistakably transforming Pakistan but local resistance is rising to all the asset buying and building: Chinese companies are taking over major businesses in Pakistan’s export-led manufacturing sector, the profit-making heart of the nation’s $276 billion economy. As rising Chinese investment promises to boost Pakistan’s […]
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.