Russia’s Planned Power of Siberia 2 Gas Pipeline to China Hit by Construction Delay
February 2nd, 2024
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on Russia’s planned gas pipeline to China hit by construction delay Construction on the Kremlin’s long-planned mega-pipeline connecting Russia’s western gasfields with China is expected to be delayed, the prime minister of Mongolia has warned, in a blow to Moscow’s plans to secure a new market for the […]
Read more »Europe and Africa Forging a New Relationship
February 2nd, 2024
Via Modern Diplomacy, a look at efforts to forge a new relationship between Europe and Africa: Late January 2024, prominent African leaders and corporate business executives attended the summit intended to forge a new relationship between Europe and Africa. It was hosted by Italy’s hard-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni who who came to power in […]
Read more »African Production of Natural Gas: A Vexing Climate Challenge
February 1st, 2024
Via The Washington Post, a look at African production of natural gas and how it poses a vexing climate challenge: As a young geologist working for Senegal’s state-owned petroleum company in the 1990s, Macky Sall was charged with prospecting for oil and gas in this West African nation. For years, he and his colleagues came […]
Read more »Can Lagos Be Harnessed to the Rest of Nigeria?
February 1st, 2024
Courtesy of The Africa Report, a report on Nigeria’s efforts to create a new industrial hub in Lekki: Successful economies connect their growth poles to their hinterlands. In Nigeria, the Lagos ‘locomotive’ is isolated from the ‘carriages’. Can that change with a new industrial hub in Lekki? Lagosians are ambivalent about the inflows of people […]
Read more »China’s Digital Silk Road (DSR) In Southeast Asia: Progress And Challenges
January 31st, 2024
Via Eurasia Review, a look at China’s Digital Silk Road (DSR) in Southeast Asia: This year marks the 10th anniversary of the launch of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Proposed by President Xi Jinping in 2013, the BRI has become China’s flagship foreign policy to realise the Chinese vision of a “global community of shared future.”[1] […]
Read more »Putting 10,000 EVs on African Roads, the Hard Way
January 31st, 2024
Courtesy of Rest of World, an article on Benin-based Spiro’s efforts to exchange old bikes for electric models across four African countries: In less than two years, Cotonou-headquartered EV company Spiro has put more than 10,000 e-bikes on roads across four African countries. But experts believe the company is incurring huge costs that will make […]
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.