TechSafari: Four African Countries To Watch In 2024
December 21st, 2023
Via TechSafari, a look at Africa’s up and coming tech ecosystems in Ghana, Senegal, Morocco, and Zambia: It’s been a few wild years of funding in Africa, with ups and downs. But mostly ups. Last year, African startups raised about $5.4 billion – nearly a billion more than in 2021, and four times what they raised […]
Read more »What Would A Fossil Free Arab World Look Like?
December 20th, 2023
Via Grist, commentary on what abandoning fossil fuels could look like in the Arab world: For the second year in a row, world leaders met in the Arab world to negotiate the future of the planet. As a backdrop to the United Nations climate conference in Dubai, it’s a fitting venue for a planet-wide shift […]
Read more »What Africa Can Learn From Morocco’s Thriving Economic Zones
December 5th, 2023
Via The Africa Report, a look at how Africa’s new free trade agreement can catalyse industrialisation in special economic zones, says the head of Morocco’s Tanger Med Zone, but only if they get the infrastructure and business model right: Morocco’s Tanger Med, Africa’s largest and most developed industrial port complex, has been for years playing […]
Read more »China Sets Sights on Morocco As North African Nation Becomes Centre of EV Revolution
November 15th, 2023
Via the South China Morning Post, a report on China’s investment interest in Morocco around EVs” Morocco’s proximity to Europe, abundance of critical minerals and tax incentives have put it at the heart of the electric vehicle sector As part of the global trend of nearshoring, Chinese companies are now lining up to shorten supply […]
Read more »These Five Countries Are Key Economic ‘Connectors’ in a Fragmenting World
November 3rd, 2023
Courtesy of Bloomberg, a look at the Vietnam, Poland, Mexico, Morocco and Indonesia are benefiting from the reshuffling of supply chains in response to US-China tensions. You may not have grown up playing with an Erector Set, but perhaps you had another building kit where, with patience and perhaps some parental assistance, you could bolt […]
Read more »Facing Exclusion From U.S., Chinese EV Suppliers Map a Circuitous Route Back In
October 12th, 2023
Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal, a report on Chinese battery makers’ path around legal barriers through South Korea and Morocco: Chinese battery companies critical to electric vehicles are pursuing deals with U.S. free-trade partners South Korea and Morocco, seeking to tap growing demand in America and bypass rules aimed at shutting them out of the market. […]
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.