How China’s US$900 Million Port Deal in Angola Shows its Dominance over US Interests
August 4th, 2026
Via South China Morning Post, a look at how – as Washington eyes the nation’s critical minerals and invests in a strategic rail project, Beijing leads in strengthening its supply chain: On the South Atlantic coastline, Angola stands out as rare ground on which the United States has been willing to vie with China for influence […]
Read more »Oman Opens Bank in Angola to Boost African Trade Ties
April 24th, 2026
Via Arabian Business Gulf Insight, a report on Oman’s decision to open an investment bank in Angola: Oman has established a corporate investment bank in Angola to expand its financial footprint in Africa’s emerging markets. The African Bank of Oman (ABO) falls under the objectives of Vision 2040, which seeks to diversify sources of national income […]
Read more »Angola’s Biggest Bank Accelerates Regional Expansion With DRC In Focus
November 25th, 2025
Via The Africa Report, a look at Banco Angolano de Investimentos’s plans to accelerate regional expansion: Banco Angolano de Investimentos (BAI) plans to raise the share of loans to the private sector to about 40% as it backs Angola’s push to diversify the economy away from oil and gas. The timing is favourable. Angola is hosting […]
Read more »Angola Rail Line Offers Clues to Trump’s Africa Policy
April 5th, 2025
Via New York Times, an article on the $4 billion Lobito Corridor project which was the Biden administration’s signature initiative in Africa. Early signs are that the Trump team supports it, too, for mineral access if nothing else. An 800-mile rail corridor stretching from Angola’s northern border to the Atlantic Ocean was former President Joseph […]
Read more »Angola Pushes Ahead With Key Corridor
March 15th, 2025
Via The Africa Report, a look at the Lobito Corridor project, in light of the Trump Administration’s dissolution of USAID: Despite US funding uncertainty, officials say the strategic rail and road project from DRC to Angola’s Atlantic coast will forge ahead. Angola insists its flagship Lobito Corridor project will move forward regardless of concerns over […]
Read more »China, America, and the Great Railway Race in Africa
March 7th, 2025
Via The Diplomat, a look at how China and the United States are engaged in a battle for access, resources, and influence along railways in Tanzania, Zambia, Angola, and the DRC, echoing trends from the colonial era. The Mukuba Express had been motionless for eight hours, stopped in a small village about 50 miles west […]
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.