Forget Lobito. Is West Africa’s ‘Liberty Corridor’ the Next Frontier for Trump’s Minerals Diplomacy?
December 31st, 2025
Via The Africa Report, a look at how the Trump administration is navigating a high-stakes influence battle between mining giants Ivanhoe Atlantic and ArcelorMittal over the strategic rail infrastructure project in Liberia designed to unlock West Africa’s massive iron ore deposits: The Donald Trump administration is caught in the middle of a multi-billion-dollar squabble between two mining […]
Read more »Liberia Backs Ivanhoe Atlantic Rail Deal to Unlock Iron Ore Mine
December 19th, 2025
Via Bloomberg, a report on an export railway key to building an iron ore mind in Guinea: A US company, Ivanhoe Atlantic Inc., took a key step toward building an iron ore mine in Guinea after lawmakers in Liberia ratified an agreement allowing the firm to access an export railway. The access arrangement permits Ivanhoe […]
Read more »Liberia Signs Deal With Elon Musk’s Starlink
October 14th, 2024
Courtesy of The Africa Report, an article on Liberia’s agreement with Starlink: Liberia has signed a one-year licensing agreement with tech billionaire Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet service, in a bid to boost coverage across the poorly connected West African state. Internet coverage in Liberia currently stands at around 60 percent, acting chairman of the Liberia Telecommunications […]
Read more »Africa’s New Railway Age
July 23rd, 2024
Courtesy of The Economist, a look at how Sino-American tensions in Africa are playing out on the tracks: “Every inhabitant of Thiès”, wrote a Senegalese novelist, Ousmane Sembène, in 1960, “depended on the railway.” Like many African cities, Thiès was a product of the continent’s first, colonial-era rail revolution. The French-built railway that ran through it […]
Read more »Liberia: “It’s Not Going To Be Business As Usual” for Foreign Investors
May 20th, 2024
Via The Africa Report, a report on the new Liberian President’s views on foreign investment: President Joseph Boakai brought a message to international investors on his first US foray since taking office in January – Liberia is open for business, but only on its own terms. “I want to be clear that it’s not going to be […]
Read more »Mining Expectations: Robert Friedland’s $5bn Rail Plan to Break Mount Nimba Deadlock
April 12th, 2024
Courtesy of The Africa Report, a report on Robert Friedland who – facing the blockage caused by ArcelorMittal’s exclusive rail deal with Liberia – decided to take his iron ore mine project in Guinea into his own hands – and build his own railway. From Conakry to Monrovia via Washington, he has been mobilising his network […]
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.