Somalia: Port of Berbera – Dubai Invests in Horn of Africa Shipping
December 27th, 2022
Via AllAfrica, a look at how Dubai-based DP World is expanding its operations in Somaliland as part of a plan to turn the breakaway region into a major trade hub: The two new cranes towering over a huge cargo ship are tall enough to reach even the highest of the containers that are stacked up five […]
Read more »Syrian Economy: On Brink of Collapse
December 25th, 2022
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on Syria’s economy which is on the brink of collapse: The wages Youssef once earned as a taxi driver in Aleppo used to be enough: though the days were often long, his family had never been in need. But in recent weeks, acute fuel shortages have paralysed regime-held […]
Read more »How Greenland’s Mineral Wealth Made It a Geopolitical Battleground
December 24th, 2022
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, a look at how Denmark’s semi-autonomous territory is coveted by China, the United States, and global mining companies: Angutitsiaq Isbosethsen, 21, sits on a small hill close to Kangerluarsuk, a deep-frozen fjord in Kujalleq in South Greenland. His hometown, Narsaq, with 1,346 inhabitants, is 20 minutes away by boat. Isbosethsen works as a […]
Read more »Gwadar Protest Leader Warns Chinese To Leave Key Belt and Road Port
December 24th, 2022
Via NikkeiAsia, a report on how the Pakistani government faces increasingly confrontational local rights movement to China’s BRI investment: A protest leader in the Pakistani port town of Gwadar, a key hub for China’s Belt and Road Initiative, has warned Chinese citizens to leave by Thursday — turning up the heat on a federal government already […]
Read more »Iran, Russia Building Trade Route That Defies Sanctions
December 24th, 2022
Via The Financial Tribune, a look at Iran and Russia’s efforts to build a trade route that defies sanctions: Iran, Russia Building Trade Route That Defies Sanctions ….. Russia and Iran are building a new transcontinental trade route stretching from the eastern edge of Europe to the Indian Ocean, a 3,000–kilometer (1,860–mile) passage that’s beyond […]
Read more »Zimbabwe Has Potential to Meet 20% of Global Lithium Demand
December 24th, 2022
Via VOA, a report on Zimbabwe’s efforts to attract investment after the Mugabe era: Zimbabwe has the potential to supply 20 percent of the world’s lithium, the mines minister from Africa’s top producer of the alkali metal used in batteries for electric vehicles said on Wednesday. Zimbabwe is keen to attract capital to its mining sector […]
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.