Egypt and Eritrea Close Ranks Over Ethiopia’s Red Sea Push
November 3rd, 2025
Via The Africa Report, a look at how Egypt and Eritrea are closing ranks over Ethiopia’s Red Sea push: Addis Ababa’s renewed bid for maritime access is reshaping alliances across the Horn, pushing Cairo and Asmara into rare strategic alignment. When Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi welcomed Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki to Cairo this week, […]
Read more »The Optimist’s Case for Mexico
November 2nd, 2025
Via Bloomberg, commentary on Mexico: David Arana always had a thing for numbers. That passion took him to MIT to study mathematics and later to New York, where he traded credit derivatives for Deutsche Bank AG. In 2013, after returning to Mexico, he co-founded Konfío, a start-up seeking to disrupt a market long ignored by the country’s […]
Read more »Seychelles and Mauritius Still Top African Investment Destinations
October 28th, 2025
Via Bloomberg, an article on leading African investment destinations: Seychelles and Mauritius retained their ranking as Africa’s most attractive investment destinations, outperforming larger economies, including Egypt, South Africa and Morocco. Ivory Coast was the country whose ranking advanced the most, moving into the top 10 from 16th place, thanks to its widening access to electricity […]
Read more »“This Is A New Era,” Syria Central Bank Says Amid Investment Push
October 24th, 2025
Via Forbes, a report on Syria’s investment push: The civil war that tore through Syria for more than a decade claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, displaced millions, and shattered the country’s economy. Now, after years of isolation, a new team of Syrian economic officials is fanning out across world capitals with a different message: […]
Read more »Algeria : Sonatrach Expands its Footprint in Southern Africa
October 24th, 2025
Via Africa News Agency, a report on Sonatrach expanding its footprint in Southern Africa: Algeria’s Sonatrach and Mozambique’s ENH (Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos E.P.) signed a memorandum of understanding to strengthen cooperation in the oil and gas sector. The agreement, inked in Maputo by Rachid Hachichi (Sonatrach CEO) and Ludovina Bernardo (ENH Chair), with Algerian […]
Read more »India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor: Promise, Peril, and the Politics of Connectivity
October 22nd, 2025
Via Modern Diplomacy, a look at the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) which was announced as a transformative connectivity framework which aims to link India, the Arabian Peninsula, and Europe through maritime, rail, energy, and digital networks: Source: Siasat.com During a recent meeting of Egypt’s Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in […]
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.