Latin America Is About to Become a Priority for U.S. Foreign Policy
December 13th, 2024
Courtesy of Foreign Affairs, commentary on President Trump’s likely prioritization of Latin America, disrupting what some have called three decades of “benign neglect”: While traveling throughout Latin America in recent years, visitors heard the same refrain: Washington isn’t paying enough attention to the region. Business leaders, academics, and politicians on both the left and the […]
Read more »Will Turkiye Brokered Deal Between Ethiopia and Somalia Lower Tensions in the Horn?
December 13th, 2024
Via The Africa Report, an article on the Turkiye brokered deal between Ethiopia and Somalia: Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan says a joint declaration between Ethiopia and Somalia ‘focuses on the future, not the past’, describing it as the first step towards a new beginning based on peace and cooperation between the neighbours. In a […]
Read more »Will Trump White House Recognize Somaliland?
December 10th, 2024
Via Semafor, an article on the possibility that a Trump White House looks will recognize the world’s newest country: Somaliland, a self-governing region within Somalia, will be much closer to being recognized by the United States as the world’s newest country when Donald Trump returns to the White House in January. Support for the region […]
Read more »Africa Infrastructure Funder Sees $3 Billion of Projects in 2025
December 10th, 2024
Via Bloomberg, a report on Africa Finance Corporations’s plans to invest more than $3B in projects across the continent in 2025: AFC looks for agricultural, electrification initiatives CEO sees projects linked to Africa trade area as opportunities Africa Finance Corp. plans to invest more than $3 billion in projects across the continent next year to boost […]
Read more »China’s Huaxin Cement to challenge Dangote, BUA after Lafarge Africa purchase
December 10th, 2024
Via The Africa Report, commentary on how a new Chinese entrant in Nigerian cement is likely to ramp up competition: Dangote Cement and BUA face a new challenger in Nigeria from Chinese newcomer Huaxin Cement, which is buying an 83.8% stake in Lafarge Africa from Holcim. Holcim said in a statement on 1 December that the sale […]
Read more »‘Modern Silk Road’ brings booming trade to China-Kazakhstan border
December 9th, 2024
Via Nikkei Asia, a look at the booming trade at the China-Kazakhstan border: Trade is thriving along the “modern Silk Road,” which passes through a far-flung city on the border of China and Kazakhstan. Khorgos is about 3,500 kilometers due west of Beijing in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Flying over the oil fields of […]
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.