TechSafari: Four African Countries To Watch In 2024
December 21st, 2023
Via TechSafari, a look at Africa’s up and coming tech ecosystems in Ghana, Senegal, Morocco, and Zambia: It’s been a few wild years of funding in Africa, with ups and downs. But mostly ups. Last year, African startups raised about $5.4 billion – nearly a billion more than in 2021, and four times what they raised […]
Read more »Papua New Guinea Will Not Be ‘Reckless’ With China Loans: PM
December 21st, 2023
Via France24, an article on Papua New Guinea’s use of BRI funding: Papua New Guinea’s prime minister has promised to tread carefully with Belt and Road funding from China, telling AFP on Monday he would not be “reckless” with foreign loans. China and the United States have been jockeying for influence in the South Pacific state, […]
Read more »Pakistan: How Energy Traders Left A Country In The Cold
December 20th, 2023
Courtesy of Bloomberg, a look at how commodity traders switched off Pakistan’s electricity: Toward the end of 2021, in an office block above the luxury boutiques of Geneva’s Rue du Rhône, Ksenia Alleyne called her team into a meeting. Alleyne is the co-head of liquefied natural gas trading at Gunvor Group Ltd.—a Swiss-based commodities firm with customers around […]
Read more »Africa’s Resource Giant Votes With Role in Climate Future:
December 19th, 2023
Courtesy of Bloomberg, a report on the DRC’s election: Voters in the Democratic Republic of Congo are to decide the fate of a nation that could drive the global energy transition and help shape the fight against climate change. Congo will soon be the world’s second-biggest copper producer and accounts for about 70% of cobalt […]
Read more »Far Away From Houston, a U.S. Energy Partner Waits: Kazakhstan
December 19th, 2023
Via Real Clear Energy, an article on Kazakhstan: A key piece of America’s low-carbon future sits in the steppes of Central Asia. The path there is not along the transportation corridors Xi Jinping is currently working to build from China to Europe. Nor does it lie in the pockets of Vladimir Putin and his gang who last month […]
Read more »From Energy To Diplomacy: A Decade of Belt & Road In The Middle East
December 19th, 2023
Via The Diplomatic Courier, a look at the impact of China’s BRI in the Middle East: China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has had, over the past decade, a profound impact on the political, cultural, and economic landscapes of countries the world over. While much of the BRI is an empty concept, BRI investments have […]
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.