Tata Minibuses: Key To Success in Dakar
November 23rd, 2023
Via The Africa Report, a look at how a network of minibuses carries more than a million passengers a day in Dakar: Created in the early 2000s, the AFTU network of communal minibuses now carries more than a million passengers a day, mainly in and around the Senegalese capital Dakar. These white communal minibuses with […]
Read more »Belt and Road 2.0
November 23rd, 2023
Via The Lowy Institute, commentary on how China’s Belt and Road Forum last month showed the initiative is not dead, but changing shape: The third Belt and Road Forum held in Beijing last month was a closely watched affair. Marking a decade since the launch of the trillion-dollar initiative, it was also the first high-level diplomatic event […]
Read more »Untapped Mining Potential in Africa Due To Political Instability: Top 4 Markets
November 22nd, 2023
Via The Business Year, a look at how – from the Horn of Africa to Madagascar – political instability has left enormous mining potential untapped: Africa is home to the largest reserves of known mineral resources, hosting considerable proven reserves of gold and other precious metals, rare earth elements, and phosphate, among much else. The […]
Read more »Rush for Lithium in Africa Risks Fueling Corruption and Failing The Continent’s Citizens
November 22nd, 2023
Via Global Witness, critical commentary on the rush for lithium in Africa: Efforts to address the global climate emergency are leading to an increased demand for renewable energy technology, particularly in the Global North, including electric vehicles and the batteries required to power them. Africa is one of the new frontiers in a race for […]
Read more »São Tomé and Príncipe in 2024: Economic Overview
November 22nd, 2023
Via The Business Year, a look at how São Tomé and Príncipe, Africa’s most progressive micro-state, is set to kickstart its economic engine in 2024. An African democracy enjoying a high degree of political stability and freedom, São Tomé and Príncipe is an island country located in the Atlantic Ocean off the western coast of Central […]
Read more »Chinese Backed MMG Plans to Buy Copper Mine in Africa for $1.88 Billion
November 21st, 2023
Via the Wall Street Journal, a report that MMG, which is nearly 68%-owned by state-owned China Minmetals, plans to buy the Khoemacau mine in northwest Botswana: Chinese government-backed mining company MMG is acquiring a copper mine in southern Africa for almost $1.88 billion as it looks to bolster its stockpile of a metal that is in […]
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.