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Cameroon: Investing In Central Africa’s Melting Pot

Courtesy of The Exchange, a look at Cameroon’s investment potential: Boasting vast untapped opportunities, Cameroon is a viable investment destination with key sectors teeming with the potential to attract significant and worthwhile investments. According to forecasts by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), GDP growth is expected at 4.5 percent for 2022, and 4.8 percent from […]

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Chad: Well Positioned To Attract More Oil Investment

Via The Exchange, an article on Chad’s petroleum sector: Over the past few years, the lack of investment in Africa’s oil and gas sector has led to a sharp decline in production. With the sanctions on Russian energy, OPEC and its allies have set a target to meet a larger global market share. Despite estimated […]

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Fintech In Africa: The End Of The Beginning

Via McKinsey, a look at how Africa’s fintech industry is coming of age in the face of political and economic challenges: Between 2020 and 2021, the number of tech start-ups in Africa tripled to around 5,200 companies. Just under half of these are fintechs, which are making it their business to disrupt and augment traditional financial services.1 McKinsey […]

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African Tech Firms May Soon Be Flocking to Silicon Zanzibar

Via PYMNTS, an article on a new public-private initiative to turn Zanzibar into a leading hub for Africa’s tech firms: The East African archipelago of Zanzibar may be most well-known for its tourism, beaches and wildlife, but the local government is pinning its hope on Silicon Zanzibar, a new public-private initiative, to also turn the island […]

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West Follows China’s Lead With Its Own ‘Belt and Roads’

Courtesy of The Asia Times, commentary on how the EU and G7 are planning their own versions of the Chinese-led global infrastructure project: In the past 10 years, China has built more than 100,000 kilometers of roads and railways in Africa. The massive project is part of the Belt and Road Initiative, a China-led global […]

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PIA May Become Part of Qatar Airways in Investment Package Worth $5 Billion

Via Pro Pakistani, an article on Qatar’s package of support for Pakistan, which may include PIA: Pakistan is likely to receive an unusual package from Qatar, under which Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) could become a part of Qatar Airways in an overall investment package that could reach $5 billion. Well-informed sources in the Ministry of […]

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WILDCATS AND BLACK SHEEP
Wildcats & Black Sheep is a personal interest blog dedicated to the identification and evaluation of maverick investment opportunities arising in frontier - and, what some may consider to be, “rogue” or “black sheep” - markets around the world.

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.