Why Nigeria’s Biggest Telecom Companies Are Getting Banking Licenses
May 9th, 2022
Courtesy of Quartz, an article on why Nigeria’s biggest telecom companies are getting banking licenses: Nigeria is increasingly liberalizing its financial services sector away from a total dependence on banks to include providers with different business models and distribution channels. The latest step in that evolution is the granting of ‘payment service bank’ licenses to […]
Read more »Can Azerbaijan Help Europe Kick Its Russian Gas Habit?
May 9th, 2022
Via Radio Free Europe, an article on Azerbaijan’s potential to fill supply gaps caused by Russian sanctions and restrictions: Russia may be using missiles and bombs in its invasion of Ukraine, but it has another weapon, less lethal but nevertheless threatening, pointed at the rest of Europe — energy. Amid international outrage over its unprovoked […]
Read more »Will Morocco Hit An Oil Jackpot?
May 9th, 2022
Via The Africa Report, a look at how Morocco – with its promising prospects, attractive tax incentives, an avalanche of exploration permits – is pulling out all the stops to develop black gold exploration: “Morocco has hydrocarbon potential […] Moroccan basins are underexplored […] Now, significant investments are needed to determine its economic importance and […]
Read more »YouScribe Takes On Amazon In Africa
May 9th, 2022
An interesting look at how YouScribe – a digital reading platform with more than one million French-language books, newspapers and audiobooks – has amassed hundreds of thousands of subscribers in Africa and competes strongly against the likes of Amazon through an innovative business model focused on affordable pricing and a viable payment method: When YouScribe […]
Read more »Dangote’s Timely Fertilizer Plant Pays off As Prices Soar
May 6th, 2022
Via African Business, an article on Dangote’s new Nigerian fertilizer plant: What better time to launch a fertiliser plant than when global prices are at their record highs? That’s exactly what Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, did. On March 22, Dangote’s $2.5bn fertiliser plant in Nigeria’s economic capital, Lagos, started production. The 3-million tons a […]
Read more »Russia Looks To Cash In On Afghanistan Opportunities
May 6th, 2022
Via Russia Briefing, commentary on Russia’s interest in Afghanistan: Afghanistan is a US$1 trillion commodities and transit bank for Russian and Chinese supply chain needs Eight months after US troops finally exited Afghanistan, and 20 years after a US invasion in which Washington spent US$2.3 trillion on being there, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has […]
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.