Africa Takes Aim at Avocado Market Expected to Reach $26 Billion by 2030
May 26th, 2024
Via Emerging Real Estate, a report on the global avocado market, which is expected to reach $26.04 billion by 2030, growing at a compound annual growth rate of 7.3%. Africa, already a major producer, is poised to be a key player in this growth. Specific growth projections for Africa’s avocado industry are difficult to make, […]
Read more »Addis Ababa Facelift Aims To Turn Historic Parts of City Into “Modern-Day Dubai”
May 24th, 2024
Courtesy of The Africa Report, a look at Addis Ababa’s modernization drive: Addis Ababa is undergoing a major facelift as part of the Corridor Development Project to turn historic parts of the city into a “modern-day Dubai” – the consequences of attaining this dream means thousands are being displaced from their lifelong homes. In anticipation […]
Read more »The Horn Of Africa States: Conflict, Crises, And Capitalism
May 20th, 2024
Via Eurasia Review, commentary on the Horn of Africa: It is quite clear that there is an intense almost cut-throat competition for the Horn of Africa States region lately, involving major, middle and even regional powers. This is no longer ideological as was in the past between capitalism and communism but economic and access to […]
Read more »Ethiopian Mining: Rich Potential
April 29th, 2024
Via The Africa Report, a report on Ethiopia’s mining ambitions: Ethiopian Minerals Corporation CEO Rahel Getachew says international interest in the country’s mining sector is taking off. Ethiopia’s unexploited mineral resources can be used to make the mining sector the biggest contributor to GDP, Rahel Getachew, CEO of the Ethiopian Minerals Corporation (EMC), tells The Africa […]
Read more »A Crumbling Metro Reveals Failed Promise of China’s Billions in Africa
April 12th, 2024
Via Bloomberg, a look at how the $475 million light-rail system serving Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa shows how some China-funded infrastructure investments across the continent are now suffering from neglect: Almost a decade ago, the light-rail system in Ethiopia’s bustling capital of Addis Ababa was hailed as a revolutionary solution to the city’s transportation woes. Envisioned as a […]
Read more »The ‘Conflict Economy’ of Sesame in Ethiopia and Sudan
April 5th, 2024
Via Chatham House, a new report on how the sesame sector has become entangled in local and transnational conflict, and how policymakers need to respond: The sesame trade is no longer just a mainstay of local livelihoods in Ethiopia and Sudan. Amid civil war and territorial rivalry on both sides of the border, it now […]
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.