Wagner Group’s Central African Financial Model
July 12th, 2023
Courtesy of The Africa Report, an investigation into how Wagner – from gold to coffee, wood to spirits – has made the Central African Republic and Cameroon the backbone of a network of companies whose profits are worth millions of euros: Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mercenaries are notably exploiting the Ndassima mine in the Central African Republic, […]
Read more »DHL Invests In Latin America As Clients Expand Supply Chains Beyond China
July 12th, 2023
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an article on DHL’s efforts to build new warehouses across alternative manufacturing hubs including Mexico, Malaysia and Vietnam: Deutsche Post DHL is investing €500mn in its Latin American business as it seeks to capitalise on growing demand to expand supply chains beyond China. The logistics group is building out new […]
Read more »Power Play? A Troubled New Power Plant Leaves Jordan in Debt to China
July 10th, 2023
Via AP News, an article on a troubled new power plant which has left Jordan in debt to China, raising concerns over Beijing’s influence: Jordan’s Attarat power plant was envisioned as a landmark project promising to provide the desert kingdom with a major source of energy while solidifying its relations with China. But weeks after […]
Read more »In Afghanistan’s Taxi Industry, the Taliban Show How They Govern
July 10th, 2023
Via New Lines Magazine, a report on the Afghan taxi industry and how new uniform cab colors aim at demonstrating the regime’s abilities: On May 20, days after the Kabul General Directorate of Traffic Police and the Ministry of Interior announced a color change for taxis in the city, I was sitting in a dark-colored […]
Read more »Move Over Dubai. This Tiny Emirate Wants to Be the Next Haven for Billionaires
July 10th, 2023
Courtesy of Bloomberg, a report on how Ras Al Khaimah looks to lure rich from around the world From the top of the RAK International Corporate Centre, foreign tycoons can catch a glimpse of a city transforming. A long stretch of desert lies toward the north. Luxury villas dot the Persian Gulf coast to the […]
Read more »How Wagner Teamed up with the CAR’s Diamond Mafia
July 10th, 2023
Courtesy of The Africa Report, a look at how the Wagner group has taken control of the Central African diamond sector: A stone’s throw away, the river Kotto flows slowly, waiting to empty into the Oubangui, situated nearly 200km further south on the border with DRC. A little further on, on the ochre laterite road […]
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.