How Africa’s e-Commerce Giant is Fighting off Shein and Temu
August 25th, 2025
Via Rest of World, a report on how Jumia is capitalizing on the U.S.-China trade war as Chinese vendors are exploring new avenues to route their products into markets such as Nigeria and Côte d’Ivoire: Competition has been steep for Jumiai, Africa’s largest e-commerce platform, especially from major Chinese companies like Temu and Sheini. Jumia is […]
Read more »Battling Power Outages and Heat Wave, Iran Orders More Shutdowns
August 24th, 2025
Courtesy of New York Times, a look at how – amid suffocating temperatures – Iranian authorities are closing public offices and cutting water and electricity as the country struggles with an energy crisis: Iranian officials have announced an extra day of government shutdowns to ease demand on dwindling electricity and water supplies amid a summer […]
Read more »Turkey Set for Gas-Exploration Deal After Wooing Ex-Libya Foes
August 24th, 2025
Via Bloomberg, an article on an agreement for Turkey to explore Libyan gas: Libya’s eastern parliament is set to vote on a 2019 pact that would allow Turkey to explore for energy in the North African nation’s waters. The agreement could kickstart oil and gas exploration by Turkish ships in a swathe of territory between […]
Read more »All Downhill: Neom Ski Resort Strains Budget; Saudi Arabia and Olympic Council Weigh Moving Asian Winter Games
August 22nd, 2025
Via Bloomberg, a report that Saudi Arabia and the Olympic Council are weighing moving the Asian Winter Games: Saudi Arabia and the Olympic Council of Asia have begun approaching other countries to potentially take over the 2029 Asian Winter Games as the ski resort designated to host the tournament in the Middle Eastern nation grapples […]
Read more »Africa Is Buying a Record Number of Chinese Solar Panels
August 22nd, 2025
Via Wired, a look at how Africa’s energy-starved countries on the continent have reluctantly turned to coal and gas for decades. Cheap Chinese solar panels are now finally changing the calculus. From Algeria on the Mediterranean coast to landlocked Zambia in the south, countries across Africa have been importing significantly more solar panels from China this year than […]
Read more »Tajikistan Blames Illegal Cryptocurrency Mining for Some of Its Energy Woes
August 20th, 2025
Via The Diplomat, a report on Tajikistan’s energy woes: During an August 12 conference, Tajikistan’s Prosecutor General Khabibullo Vokhidzoda expressed concern over electricity theft by illegal cryptocurrency mining farms in the country. According to Vokhidzoda, whose office is currently pursuing five criminal investigations into the matter, the financial damage caused by these illegal operations in just the […]
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.