World Needs More Launchpads. Oman Wants To Help.
October 21st, 2025
Via Rest of World, a look at Oman’s efforts to build a space industry from scratch: Oman’s dream for a spaceport sits in a swath of desert overlooking the Arabian Sea. If all goes according to plan, three separate complexes here will launch everything from small suborbital rockets for scientific experiments to superheavy behemoths into […]
Read more »Türkiye: ‘Front-Runner’ in Investments in Somalia
October 21st, 2025
Via A News, a report on Türkiye’s growing investment interest in Somalia: Türkiye is a front-runner in investments in Somalia, said the chief economic adviser to the African country’s president. “The international community has been providing support to Somalia, the World Bank, the IMF, and bilateral countries … Türkiye is one of those countries,” Hassan Adam Hosow, […]
Read more »The Rise of Durian Diplomacy
October 18th, 2025
Via Foreign Policy, a report on how – in Asia – soft power rests on a divisive, spiky fruit: The fruit’s scent announces its presence long before it comes into view. The aroma snakes down the lorongs, past the coffee houses and xian bing stalls of Kuala Lumpur’s Chinatown, ending at the gloved hand of the local […]
Read more »India’s Rare Earth Dilemma: Between Chinese Leverage and an Afghan Offer
October 18th, 2025
Via The Diplomat, a look at India’s behavior in regard to critical minerals can be best understood as strategic hedging: Beijing is signaling geoeconomic control over a chokepoint industry by deciding to resume the supply of rare-earth magnets to India on the condition of a written “no-diversion” pledge. This is more than just a contractual detail. […]
Read more »Algeria Clinches $5.4 billion Oil and Gas Deal with Saudi Arabia
October 17th, 2025
Via Business Insider, an article on how Algeria has secured a $5.4 billion production-sharing agreement with Saudi Arabia’s Midad Energy to explore and develop oil and gas reserves in the Illizi Basin, marking a major step in the North African country’s energy expansion and foreign investment strategy: Saudi Arabia’s Midad Energy signed a $5.4 billion […]
Read more »Kuwait Fund Seals $12.8M Road Deals for Belize, Saint Lucia
October 17th, 2025
Via Zawya, a report on the Kuwait Fund’s $12.8mln road deals for Belize and Saint Lucia: The Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) signed two loan agreements with Belize and Saint Lucia on the sidelines of the World Bank Group meetings taking place this week in Washington, with Kuwait’s participation. In a statement, the […]
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.