Turkey: Making A Big Push Into Africa
April 25th, 2022
Courtesy of The Economist, an article on Turkey’s diplomatic and corporate engagement into Africa: he recep tayyip erdogan hospital in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, is named after Turkey’s president. It has 47 intensive-care beds, more than any other in the country, but it does not treat covid-19 patients. “If we did, we would have to […]
Read more »What The Billionaire Club’s Run On Cobalt Means For Greenland and Africa
April 21st, 2022
Via Vanity Fair, a look at how Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and other masters of the universe are betting big on Greenland as mining in the Congo gets too dirty for even Elon Musk: As the bankers from J.P. Morgan’s London offices stepped off the two-hour private flight from Johannesburg onto the hot runway, soldiers sporting […]
Read more »Iraq’s Oil Dysfunction
April 21st, 2022
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, an article on why the world’s sixth-largest oil producer still suffers from fuel shortages and power outages: As Iraq marks 19 years since the U.S.-led invasion and the fall of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s regime this month, the country hasn’t turned into the stable, prosperous democracy that the United States and […]
Read more »Moscow’s Race Against Time To Divert Energy Exports From Europe To Asia
April 21st, 2022
Via BNE Intellinews, a report on Moscow’s efforts to diver energy exports from Europe to Asia: Europe’s unprecedented push to sever all energy ties with Russia has left Moscow scrambling to re-orientate its vast oil, gas and coal exports to Asian markets. But achieving such a monumental feat would likely take years, not to […]
Read more »Safaricom, Ethiopian Telcoms Sign Network-Sharing Deal
April 21st, 2022
Via the East African, a report that Safaricom will access the giant network of Ethiopian State monopoly Ethio Telecom allowing the telco to roll out its services across the vast Horn of Africa nation: Safaricom will access the giant network of Ethiopian State monopoly Ethio Telecom allowing the telco to roll out its services across the vast […]
Read more »Record Investment in Africa Despite Coronavirus Recession
April 21st, 2022
Via African Business, a look at how the Covid-19 pandemic in Africa has prompted firms to plough investment into digital solutions for the financial sector, which represented a monumental 60% of the total deal value in 2021: Last year, private investment in Africa hit a record high of $7.4bn, representing a 118% jump from 2020, […]
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.