Is Western Sahara Washington’s New Strategic Priority to Access Minerals?
November 19th, 2025
Via The Africa Report, an article on why has Donald Trump seized on Western Sahara – a file Washington long kept at arm’s length? The US catch-up fits a scheme that goes well beyond the stand-off between Rabat and Algiers. For decades, the Western Sahara was never a priority for the US. Folded into the broad Middle […]
Read more »North Africa: On The Rise
November 7th, 2025
Via Global Finance, a report on how North Africa is emerging as a growth engine, led by Egypt and Morocco. But structural challenges persist. This year again, North Africa is the fastest growing region in Africa and the Arab world. Combined GDP growth in Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya is expected […]
Read more »Trump Opens Trade Finance Spigot for American Deals in Western Sahara
September 28th, 2025
Via The Africa Report, an article on the fact that US lenders DFC and EXIM have received the green light to back American investment in the disputed territory: The Donald Trump administration says it will start assisting American companies looking to invest in Western Sahara, delivering on a promise made five years ago when the US president […]
Read more »China Bets on Morocco To Lead Africa’s Electric Energy Future
September 18th, 2025
Via New Arab, a look at China’s continued investment interest in Africa in general and Morocco specifically: Morocco is preparing to build Africa’s first battery gigafactory, a $5.6 billion project backed by China‘s Gotion High-Tech, which will place the North African kingdom at the centre of the global race for clean energy. The plant will be taking […]
Read more »Morocco: A Trade and Manufacturing Powerhouse
September 6th, 2025
Via The Economist, a report on Morocco’s flourishing ports and factories: The sprawling port of Tanger Med on Morocco’s north coast looks out onto the busy Strait of Gibraltar. Departing ships carry cars and goods to 180 locations across the globe. In the port itself lorries zip about on roads that shimmer in the heat. Tanger […]
Read more »Morocco’s Atlantic Gambit: Linking Restive Sahel to Atlantic Ocean
June 29th, 2025
Via Al Monitor, a look at Morocco’s efforts to link the restive Sahel to the Atlantic Ocean: A planned trade corridor linking the landlocked Sahel to the Atlantic is at the heart of an ambitious Moroccan project to tackle regional instability and consolidate its grip on disputed Western Sahara. The “Atlantic Initiative” promises ocean access […]
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.