Sudan: All Roads Lead to Khartoum
February 13th, 2023
Via Middle East Eye, a report on how Israeli and Russian delegations have been to Sudan in the last week, with US and EU envoys also present: Everyone is coming to Khartoum. At the end of last week, an Israeli delegation that included Foreign Minister Eli Cohen met Sudan’s ruling General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan as part of what the Israelis […]
Read more »DRC: A Favorable Destination For Manufacturing of Sustainable Battery Materials
February 12th, 2023
Via BloombergNEF, a report on how producing battery materials in the DRC could lower supply-chain emissions and add value to the country’s cobalt: The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) can leverage its abundant cobalt resources and hydroelectric power to become a low-cost and low-emissions producer of lithium-ion battery cathode precursor materials. At the behest […]
Read more »Zambia Has More Than Copper, Offers Unexplored Potential
February 12th, 2023
Via The Africa Report, a look at Zambia’s unexplored potential: With billions of dollars worth of African gas, gold, copper and cobalt to hit the markets in 2022, industry players are focused on the next big deals. The election of a new government in Zambia in August 2021 has led to optimism that the country […]
Read more »China, US Deals and Robots Headline Saudi Arabia’s LEAP Tech Event
February 12th, 2023
Via Al Monitor, a report on Saudi Arabia’s second LEAP technology event: Saudi Arabia’s second LEAP technology event on Tuesday saw a host of landmark partnerships and billion-dollar investments take place with major Chinese and US companies, in line with the last phase of the country’s national strategy for digital transformation. On the first day of the […]
Read more »Gabon: Potential Raw Material Export Ban To Activate Value Chain Development
February 11th, 2023
Courtesy of The Africa Report, an exclusive report on Gabon’s potential consideration of a raw material export ban as a means to activate their value chain development: Bans on the export of raw materials are a possible tool for Gabon as it seeks progress towards higher value-added trade, minister for investment promotion and public-private partnerships […]
Read more »The Biggest Source Of Cobalt Outside Africa Is Now Indonesia
February 11th, 2023
Via Bloomberg, a report on Indonesia’s cobalt potential: Indonesia has become the world’s second-largest cobalt producer, bolstering its bid to be a big player in the electric-vehicle supply chain. Production of the battery material in the Southeast Asian country surged past others including Russia and Australia to grab the No. 2 spot last year, according […]
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.