Rush for Africa’s ‘Clean Energy’ Minerals Risks Repeating Harmful Extractivist Model
January 5th, 2024
Via Mongabay, commentary on how the rush for ‘clean energy’ minerals in Africa risks repeating harmful extractivist model: The nonprofit Global Witness investigated lithium mining projects in Zimbabwe, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Namibia, which appear to reproduce the same model of extractivism that has impoverished African countries for centuries. In March, residents of […]
Read more »Ivanhoe’s First Copper Arrives in Angola
January 3rd, 2024
Via WhyAfrica, a report on the arrival of Ivanhoe mines’ first shipment of copper concentrate from the Kamoa Kakula Copper Complex in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to the Atlantic Ocean port of Lobito in Angola: Ivanhoe mines’ first shipment of copper concentrate from the Kamoa Kakula Copper Complex in the Democratic Republic […]
Read more »Africa’s Resource Giant Votes With Role in Climate Future:
December 19th, 2023
Courtesy of Bloomberg, a report on the DRC’s election: Voters in the Democratic Republic of Congo are to decide the fate of a nation that could drive the global energy transition and help shape the fight against climate change. Congo will soon be the world’s second-biggest copper producer and accounts for about 70% of cobalt […]
Read more »Congo’s Election: A Chance To Finally Meet Its Economic Potential?
December 17th, 2023
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a detailed look at how a successful vote in the DRC’s upcoming election might pave the way to a minerals-driven boom that lifts millions out of poverty: The sultry western province of Kongo Central is loaded with Congolese history. It contains the seaports at the mouth of the Congo river […]
Read more »How Africans Are Changing French — One Joke, Rap and Book at a Time
December 16th, 2023
Courtesy of the New York Times, a look at how more than 60 percent of French speakers now live in Africa and – despite growing resentment at France – Africans are contributing to the evolution and spread of the French language: French, by most estimates the world’s fifth most spoken language, is changing — perhaps […]
Read more »Billionaire Mark Cuban Backing $1 Billion Congo Carbon Plan
December 15th, 2023
Courtesy of Bloomberg, a report on a $1B project in the Democratic Republic of Congo related to carbon credits: dClimate signs MoU with Congo government to start registry Deal eyes $1 billion in credits over 10 years at $7 to $10 A climate startup backed by investors including billionaire Mark Cuban signed a preliminary deal to generate […]
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.