Botswana Digital & Innovation Hub
June 12th, 2023
Botswana has a $60 million digital and innovation HUB (BDIH), called the BDIH Science and Technology Park, which is located strategically on a 57 hectare site, near the Sir Seretse Khama International Airport and adjacent to the Diamond Technology Park in Gaborone. The focal point of the Hub is to provide state-of-the art buildings and […]
Read more »Malawi’s Surprise Plan for Farming Through Climate Disaster
June 10th, 2023
Courtesy of The Daily Beast, a look at Malawi’s plan to grow its dairy industry, one farming staple that could weather the climate crisis: Malawi is home to only 19.1 million people—a small population by any standard. Yet according to the U.N., more than 2.8 million Malawians currently face starvation—nearly 15 percent of the entire […]
Read more »Russian Plans To Export Gas To Uzbekistan
June 10th, 2023
Courtesy of The Diplomat, an article on the latest status on plans to export Russian gas to Uzbekistan” Kazakhstan will be ready to provide infrastructure for the transit of Russian gas to Uzbekistan for the “autumn-winter 2024” once Tashkent and Moscow conclude negotiations over volume and price, Kazakhstan’s Energy Minister Almasadam Satkaliyev said this week. […]
Read more »Venezuela Has More Than Just Oil and China Knows It
June 10th, 2023
Via National Interest, a look at why Venezuela’s mineral wealth is of particular interest to Beijing, and why the CCP is willing to invest heavily to ensure its extraction: On May 17, Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro received a delegation group led by Lin Mingxiang, vice minister of the International Department of the Chinese Communist Party’s […]
Read more »Morocco, GOTION High-Tech Sign $6.4B Battery Production Deal
June 10th, 2023
Via Utilities Middle East, a report on Morocco and China’s GOTION High-Tech $6.4 billion battery production deal which also includes the construction of a “Giga Factory” in Rabat, with an annual production capacity of 100 gigawatt-hours: Morocco has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with GOTION High-Tech, a Chinese-European group specialising in electric mobility, to […]
Read more »Egypt and UAE Cooperate To Establish Africa’s Largest Wind Farm
June 10th, 2023
Via Egypt Independent, a report that Egypt and UAE are working together to establish Africa’s largest wind farm: Egypt and the UAE are cooperating to secure land for the biggest wind farm in Africa – and one of the largest globally – at an estimated value of $10 billion. Three UAE companies – Masdar, Hassan […]
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.