Tanzania: Is it Too Late For U.S. To Catch Up With China?
April 20th, 2023
Courtesy of The Africa Report, a look at U.S. efforts to move closer to Tanzania: As geopolitical competition between the US and China on the continent intensifies, one country to watch is Tanzania, a historical Chinese ally, but also a major recipient of Washington aid. Analysts say Washington sees a window of opportunity to increase […]
Read more »Mexico and Peru: Soft Fruit Superpowers
April 18th, 2023
Via the World Economic Forum, a look at how Peru and Mexico boosted berry production hundreds of times over in just 10 years: Carlos Gereda didn’t know what he was starting when he brought some blueberries home to Peru from Chile in 2006. He wanted to know if they would grow in his native soil […]
Read more »Africa’s Lucrative Spare Parts Opportunity
April 18th, 2023
Courtesy of AfriDigest, a look at Africa’s lucrative spare parts opportunity, brought about by rising vehicle ownership, poor road quality, and a variety of other catalysts: Mobility is essential to economic and social development as it enables access to goods, services, and information, as well as jobs, markets, family, and friends. But it remains a […]
Read more »China Unveils ‘Grandiose Plan’ for Central Asia
April 18th, 2023
Via the Jamestown Foundation, a look at China’s forthcoming ‘Grandiose Plan’ for Central Asia: In the three decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian Federation and China have pursued divergent interests in post-Soviet Central Asia, as Moscow seeks to retain its influence even as Beijing’s “soft power” grows, underpinned by its dynamic […]
Read more »Iran Discovers World’s Second Largest Lithium Reserve
April 17th, 2023
Via The Cradle, commentary on a recent discovery of lithium in Iran: The Islamic Republic of Iran discovered one of the world’s largest lithium reserves, according to a report published by Press TV on 27 February. According to a senior official of the Iranian Ministry of Industry, Mine, and Trade (MIMT), the lithium deposits could […]
Read more »Africa’s Diesel Generation Boom
April 17th, 2023
Via Energy Monitor, an interesting look at the fact that at least 17 African countries have so many diesel generators that their collective off-grid capacity is greater than that of the power grid itself: The energy transition asks African countries to do something that has never been done before: develop without the use of fossil […]
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.