Southern Africa
June 1st, 2018
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a look at the economic prospects of several southern African nations: Over the past year, new leaders have replaced long-entrenched presidents in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Angola. Each country’s political environment has evolved since the changing of the guard, bringing opportunities for the type of economic development that wouldn’t have […]
Read more »Namibia: The New Commercial Gateway To Southern Africa?
May 24th, 2018
Via Ozy, an interesting look at Namibia: The quaint town of Swakopmund is Namibia’s fastest-growing tourist destination. Visitors flock here to experience the incongruity of German colonial buildings on the edge of an African desert, the allure of the treacherous Skeleton Coast and the promise of seeing 1,500-year-old welwitschias growing in the so-called Moon Landscape. […]
Read more »From War Room To Boardroom In Egypt
May 20th, 2018
Via Reuters, an interesting look at how – in the four years since former armed forces chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi became Egypt’s president – companies owned by the military have gone from strength to strength: In a four-decade military career, Osama Abdel Meguid served in the first Gulf War and was an assistant military attaché […]
Read more »Iran’s Telcos
May 20th, 2018
Via The Iran Project, an overview of Iran’s telecommunications sector: Iran’s ICT Minister Mohammad Javad Azari-Jahromi participated in the conferences giving speeches and outlining state programs for expansion of the information and communications sector, the ministry’s website reported. World Information Society Day celebrated on May 17, was proclaimed by a United Nations General Assembly resolution, […]
Read more »Could Gabon Be At Forefront of Africa’s Next (Palm) Oil Boom?
May 14th, 2018
Via Ozy, an article on Gabon’s palm oil potential: Sitting on the terrace of his presidential palace overseeing Libreville’s beachfront avenue, Ali Bongo contemplates the growth of Gabon’s capital. “Everything you see today wasn’t here 10 years ago,” says Gabon’s 59-year-old president, sporting a perfectly tailored camel suit and a gleaming Rolex watch. Libreville’s expansion has been […]
Read more »Central Asia Opens the Door to Afghanistan
May 11th, 2018
Via The Diplomat, a report on Central Asia’s efforts to actively engage Afghanistan on several fronts: The Central Asia states are redrawing the boundary of their region, so the cartographers will have to run to keep up. “Central Asia” as a defined place of states and borders is a recent idea, dating to the immediate post-Soviet […]
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.