Charging Ahead: Uzbekistan Looks To Electric Cars To Drive Its Green Transition
August 29th, 2024
Via CNN, an article on Uzbekistan’s EV ambitions: The most populous country in Central Asia is heavily dependent on burning fossil fuel for electricity. But over the next few years, Uzbekistan plans to slash its carbon footprint. That’s no easy feat for one of the world’s most carbon emission-intensive economies, according to the World Bank. […]
Read more »Rwanda: Banking On Its Rich Mineral Deposits To Attract Investors
August 29th, 2024
Via The Africa Report, an article on Rwanda’s mining potential: In an industry plagued with accusations of environmental degradation, labour abuse and obscure sourcing, Peter Geleta, CEO of Trinity Metals Group, is keen to defend his company’s mining record during The Africa Report’s visit to one of Trinity’s mines in Nyakabingo on the outskirts of Kigali, Rwanda. Geleta dons a hard […]
Read more »Benin: Could T-Shirts Be The Way To Industrialize An African Nation?
August 29th, 2024
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at Benin’s efforts to achieve what few countries on the continent have managed: transform its raw materials into finished goods: A plain cotton T-shirt is a pretty ordinary item of clothing. But for Benin, a sliver of a country on the west coast of Africa with little manufacturing […]
Read more »Africa’s Petrostates: Missing Out On Oil Boom
August 28th, 2024
Courtesy of The Financial Times, commentary on those African petrostates are missing out on the oil boom — and why it matters because these countries need to finance their energy transitions: Angola’s dramatic exit from the oil cartel Opec+ late last year was interpreted as a historic pivot to the west. The less understood but […]
Read more »Tracking China’s Control of Overseas Ports
August 28th, 2024
Via Council on Foreign Relations, analysis of China’s growing maritime influence via investments in strategic overseas ports: This interactive map tracks China’s growing maritime influence through investments in strategic overseas ports. Users can plot the location of each port and view satellite images alongside detailed information on the share of Chinese ownership, the total amount […]
Read more »The Young and the Westless
August 28th, 2024
Via Foreign Policy, commentary on how new centers of power are emerging as a new generation in the global south looks beyond Washington and former European colonizers (adapted from Westlessness: The Great Global Rebalancing by Samir Puri (Hodder & Stoughton, 448 pp., €28.99, July 2024): They came from different sides of the world and were meeting […]
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.