Ethiopia’s Precarious Economic Reforms
December 19th, 2024
Via Foreign Policy, a report on how Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s aesthetic vision alone will not create jobs: Addis Ababa’s main avenues are getting a facelift. The Ethiopian capital is adding maroon bike lanes, tree-lined verges, and new storefronts in regulation gray to its biggest streets. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has said that he […]
Read more »Power Sharing: The $1B ‘Electricity Highway’ Between Ethiopia and Kenya
December 19th, 2024
Via CNN, a report on the $1 billion ‘electricity highway’ comprising 650 miles of transmission lines that allow electricity to flow between Ethiopia and Kenya: Ethiopia and Kenya both embrace renewables for their electricity production. Ethiopia produces all the power for its national grid from renewable sources, and is home to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, the […]
Read more »Does Trump Want Putin To Get Ukraine’s $26 Trillion in Gas and Minerals?
December 19th, 2024
Via The Washington Post, commentary on Kyiv’s vast gas and mineral deposits, and whether President Trump want those flowing west, or to Russia and China? Donald Trump often says that liberating Iraq without getting its oil resources was one of America’s biggest foreign policy blunders. He has a chance to avoid a similar mistake in Ukraine. Ukraine […]
Read more »Is the U.S. Answer to China’s Belt and Road Working?
December 18th, 2024
Via Foreign Policy, a report on how the International Development Finance Corporation has put the United States more on the map, but China remains king of global infrastructure: U.S. President Joe Biden combined two of his passions during his much-delayed trip to Africa last week: U.S. foreign policy and trains. At the Lobito port on […]
Read more »The Caribbean Struggles To Break Its Dependence On Fossil Fuels
December 16th, 2024
Via The Economist, a look at Caribbean nations’s struggles to move to renewable energy: Venezuela’s government is prone to bouts of thuggery. In recent times, desperate for cash, it has resorted to gangsteresque oil debt-collection. “Pay up, you moron,” thundered Diosdado Cabello Cabello, Venezuela’s interior minister, in a fight over $350m in arrears with Luis Abinader, […]
Read more »Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria To Build Super Coastal Highway
December 16th, 2024
Via North Africa Post, a report on plans to build a super coastal highway in Africa: Côte d’Ivoire and Nigeria have revived talks for a regional highway that will link the two countries, boosting the movement of people and goods. The project is being discussed at an ECOWAS summit dominated by political issues and divisions […]
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.