It’s Africa’s Century
May 16th, 2022
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, a report on Africa’s century ahead: In the coming decades, we face a revolutionary shift in the balance of world affairs—and it is likely not the one you are thinking of. Since the 1990s, the idea that we might be entering an “Asian century” has preoccupied and disorientated the West. However, […]
Read more »First Flight in Six Years Takes Off from Yemen’s Sana’a Airport
May 16th, 2022
Via Tasnim News, a report that commercial aviation is returning to Yemen: Yemen’s first commercial flight in six years, which took off on Monday morning to the Jordanian capital Amman, carried 126 passengers including those seeking medical treatment. Forty-three days have passed since the humanitarian truce entered into effect in Yemen, yet, the operation of […]
Read more »China and Uzbekistan: An Emerging Development Partnership?
May 14th, 2022
Courtesy of The Diplomat, an article on how Uzbekistan is leveraging its partnership with China to address the logistical and geographic challenges it faces: Uzbekistan has been expanding its economic cooperation with China as it aims to connect to world transportation and trade routes. In a recent meeting at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Beijing, Uzbekistan presented […]
Read more »Iran and Cuba To Increase Trade and Economic Cooperation
May 14th, 2022
Via the Iran Project, a report that Iran and Cuba agreed to increase trade relations through the development of joint trade and economic cooperation: Iranian Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade Seyyed Reza Fatemi Amin announced the development of 34 opportunities and grounds for joint trade and economic cooperation between Iran and Cuba in his meeting with […]
Read more »The Turkish Drones Winning The Ukraine War
May 12th, 2022
Courtesy of Asia Times, a report on the growing commercial and military success of Turkey’s drone industry: Few modern weapons have reached the iconic status of Turkey’s Bayraktar TB2 drone. Grainy footage from the drone’s cameras showing hapless targets in Syria, Nagorno-Karabakh and Ukraine war zones being blown up by its laser-guided bombs have cemented […]
Read more »Lao Economy Grinding to a Halt as Fuel Crisis Deepens
May 11th, 2022
Via The Diplomat, a report on Laos’ economic crisis: Motorists in the Lao capital Vientiane have been forced to queue for hours at petrol stations as a fuel crisis tightens its grip, the latest sign in a brewing economic crisis in the nation of 7 million. According to a report in the state-run Laotian Times, crisis […]
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.