Uzbekistan To Start Processing Afghan Crude As Taliban Attempt Oil Revival
September 15th, 2024
Via S&P Global, a report on plans for Uzbekistan to start processing Afghan crude as Taliban attempt an oil revival: Fergana refinery to process volumes shipped across border Energy crisis prompts upstream push by Taliban government Iranian shortages seen worsening Afghan fuel problems Uzbek oil refiner Saneg has struck a deal to process a first batch […]
Read more »Chinese Firms To Build Namibia’s Largest Solar Power Plant
September 15th, 2024
Via Reuters, a report on plans that will see Chinese firms build Namibia’s largest solar power plant: Namibia’s state-owned power utility NamPower on Monday said it had signed a contract with two Chinese firms to start building the country’s largest solar power plant. The southern African country is a net importer of electricity, relying on […]
Read more »Lobito Corridor: Illustrates Lack of American Imagination in Africa
September 15th, 2024
Via the Pan African Review, critical commentary on the Lobito Corridor: “This is a project that will showcase the American model of development.” These were the words of US ambassador to Angola, Tulinabo Mushingi, when he spoke to the Financial Times on the subject of a new $10bn US-funded rail investment in the country. At a time […]
Read more »Russia Is Riding an Anti-Colonial Wave Across Africa
September 15th, 2024
Russia’s anti-colonialism crusade in African countries is meant to advance its geopolitical agenda and may also be a ploy to “secure access to Africa’s vast natural resources,” Benjamin R. Young writes in Foreign Policy: In May, pro-independence demonstrations spread across New Caledonia, a small Pacific island territory that has been ruled by France since 1853. […]
Read more »Toyota Land Cruiser, and The Rise and Fall of the 21st-Century African State
September 15th, 2024
For Pan African Review, Charles Onyango-Obbo traces the emergence and rise in the popularity of Toyota vehicles in Africa to the ideological shift in early independence days, the 1987 Chadian–Libyan War and now the ongoing Sudan conflict. He notes that the Toyota brand became a symbol of power and prestige to the ruling elite, against […]
Read more »Paraguay Loves Mickey, Its Cartoon Mouse. Disney Doesn’t.
September 15th, 2024
Courtesy of the New York Times, an article on how Mickey, a homegrown food-packaging company, is famous for facing down Disney in Paraguay’s Supreme Court: One is a colossus spanning theme parks, merchandise and movies, with 150 Academy Awards, 225,000 employees and annual revenue of nearly $90 billion. The other is a third-generation family firm […]
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.