Chinese Company Offers $10B Investment In Afghanistan’s Lithium Deposits
April 14th, 2023
While the sum seems rather high, The Frontier Post reports on a purported $10B offer by a Chinese firm for Afghanistan’s lithium deposits: The Afghanistan Ministry of Mines and Petroleum said on Thursday that a Chinese Company, Gochin expressed its interest in investing $10 billion in Afghanistan’s lithium deposits. According to the statement, the acting […]
Read more »Saudi Arabia Launches Special Economic Zones
April 14th, 2023
Via Geo Politics of South Asia and MENA, a report on Saudi Arabia’s four (4) new Special Economic Zones: According to Saudi Gazette, Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman, who is also chairman of the Council of Economic and Development Affairs, launched on Thursday four new Special Economic Zones in Saudi Arabia. The […]
Read more »Investments Rise in Chabahar Free Zone
April 13th, 2023
Via the Tehran Times, an article on growing investment interest in the Chabahar port free zone: In this century, transit and routes for transporting goods and passengers are extremely important. One of the ways that countries can increase their economic and political power and consequently their national power at a lower cost is the optimal […]
Read more »Cuba Announces Surprise Reversal of US Dollar Deposit Ban
April 13th, 2023
Via France24, a report on Cuba’s surprise lifting of its ban on US dollar deposits in banks, reversing a policy which had been in place since June 2021: Cuba’s government on Monday announced a surprise lifting of its ban on US dollar deposits in banks, reversing a policy which had been in place across the […]
Read more »Experts Pour Cold Water On Tunisia BRICS ‘Bid’
April 13th, 2023
Via Al Monitor, a report on Tunisia’s potential bid to join the BRICS block, Analysts are skeptical about an announcement made by supporters of Tunisia’s populist President Kais Saied that the North African country wants to join BRICS, a group of leading emerging economies comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa that is often […]
Read more »Is Senegal’s Akon City An Impossible Dream or Elaborate Fraud?
April 11th, 2023
Via The Africa Report, first part of a detailed look at Senegal’s Akon City which many consider an impossible dream and potential pyramid scheme: In August 2020, Senegalese-American singer Akon laid the foundation stone for a smart city located over 100km south of Dakar, but work has yet to begin. Delays threaten to stop this […]
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.