Africa’s Sleeping Giant: Central Africa
July 26th, 2022
Via Africa: The Big Deal, a look at how Central Africa has claimed less than 1% of all the funding raised by start-ups on the continent since 2019: After covering Eastern, Northern, Western and Southern Africa, our last stop on our tour of the continent’s regional ecosystems naturally takes us to Central Africa. With only $82m+ raised by start-ups since 2019, the region […]
Read more »Congo’s Revenue Dispute With China Threatens Cobalt, Copper Exports
July 22nd, 2022
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), an article on how – in the DRC – an ongoing revenue dispute between the shareholders of the massive Tenke Fungurume mine has brought exports to a halt: In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the ongoing revenue dispute between the shareholders of the massive Tenke Fungurume mine has brought exports to […]
Read more »Global Population To Hit 8B This Year
July 11th, 2022
Via CBS News, an article on a new UN report that the global population will hit 8 billion this year, with more than half of the rise forecast in the world’s population in the coming decades will be concentrated in eight countries – Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines and Tanzania: […]
Read more »Out of Africa: EV Battery Firms Look To Lock In Raw Materials
June 10th, 2022
Via Week In China, an article on how African battery firms are working to lock in raw materials from Africa: “A skilled woman cannot cook without rice,” warned the Southern Song Dynasty poet and historian Lu You, in what has become a famed Chinese saying. The country’s media has been deploying that idiom again this […]
Read more »DRC Becomes The Biggest Country in East Africa’s Trading Bloc
March 29th, 2022
Via Quartz, an article on the Democratic Republic of Congo becoming the biggest country in East Africa’s trading bloc: Trade in eastern Africa is set for a boost after officially welcoming its seventh member, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), into the East Africa Community (EAC) today (March 29). Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, and […]
Read more »What to Make of DRC’s Revenue Dispute With China Molybdenum
March 15th, 2022
Courtesy of STRATFOR, analysis (subscription required) of the DRC’s revenue dispute with mining giant China Molybdenum: In the Democratic Republic of Congo, an ongoing revenue dispute regarding the massive Chinese-owned Tenke Fungurume mine is part of President Felix Tshisekedi’s broader push to increase government oversight of the country’s mining industry. However, this push is more likely […]
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.