Zambia Plans New Railway to Spur Trade With Africa’s Great Lakes
January 21st, 2024
Courtesy of Bloomberg, a report on Zambia’s planned new railway: Zambia plans to build a new rail connection to link a Lake Tanganyika harbor to an existing line that runs to neighboring Tanzania, boosting trade with three other nations that share borders with the world’s longest freshwater lake. The southern African nation’s Transport and Logistics […]
Read more »The Red Sea Crisis Proves China Was Ahead of the Curve
January 20th, 2024
Via Foreign Policy, a look at how China’s Belt and Road Initiative wasn’t a sinister plot, but rather a blueprint for what every nation needs in an age of uncertainty and disruption: Over the past two months, a sudden surge in Houthi rebel attacks in the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait connecting the Red Sea to […]
Read more »DRC, South Africa, Botswana… Who Has the Greatest Potential in Critical Minerals?
January 19th, 2024
Via The Africa Report, a look at who has the greatest potential in critical minerals in Africa: Rich in minerals and strategically located, in theory the African continent has what it takes to play a key role in the ongoing energy transition, but the reality is more complex. We take a closer look in this […]
Read more »Yamaha Taps School Music To Score Growth in India, Southeast Asia
January 19th, 2024
Via Nikkei Asia, an article on Yamaha efforts to grow sales in emerging markets as Japan sales slide: For one New Delhi fifth grader shy of singing, a white, plastic recorder gifted by Japan’s Yamaha Corp. has been a potentially career-defining revelation. “I feel I’m better at playing the recorder and may even teach it […]
Read more »Namibia: ‘Europe of Africa’ Due To Its Road System
January 19th, 2024
Via The Brief, an article on how a delegation from Sierra Leone, on a study visit in Namibia, commended the country’s road network, even dubbing it the ‘Europe of Africa’ due to its road management system: Namibia boasts the best road infrastructure in Africa, consistently ranking first in various reports and surveys. The Sierra Leone […]
Read more »China Widens South America Trade Highway with Silk Road Mega Port
January 19th, 2024
Via The Frontier Post, a report on China’s effort to widen a South America trade highway with a Silk Road mega port in Peru: In September, a group of Brazilian farmers and officials arrived in the Peruvian fishing town of Chancay. The draw: a new Chinese mega port rising on the Pacific coast, promising to […]
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.