The Taliban’s Cyber Caliphate
May 22nd, 2025
Via Modern Diplomacy, a look at how the digital battleground has become an increasingly critical theatre for modern geopolitical conflicts, and the Taliban’s recent social media campaign targeting the UAE and Saudi Arabia underscores this shift: The digital battleground has become an increasingly critical theatre for modern geopolitical conflicts, and the Taliban’s recent social media […]
Read more »Quantum Qatar
May 22nd, 2025
Via Semafor, a report on Qatar’s $1 billion bet on quantum computing: Qatar plans to pour $1 billion over the next decade into quantum computing, one of the biggest government sponsorships of the technology. A joint venture between US quantum computing company Quantinuum and privately held Qatari investment firm Al Rabban Capital is spearheading the […]
Read more »Starlink’s Pan-African Strategy: Byte by Byte
May 22nd, 2025
Via Semafor, a look at how Starlink is stitching together a pan-African strategy in small bytes: By the time Starlink, the satellite internet provider owned by billionaire Elon Musk’s Space X, bumped up its monthly subscription prices in Nigeria by nearly 50% last week, most observers had been expecting the hike. Nigeria’s regulators blocked Starlink’s […]
Read more »China: The World’s First Electrostate?
May 20th, 2025
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an excellent article with compelling graphs about China’s long march towards national electrification: China could be on its way to becoming the world’s first major “electrostate”, with its electrification rate climbing to 30 per cent, ahead of the EU and US where electricity as a final share of energy has […]
Read more »Syria and UAE’s DP World Ink $800M Deal for Port Development
May 19th, 2025
Via Middle East Monitor, a report on an agreement between Syria and UAE’s DP World for port development: The Syrian government and DP World signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) worth $800 million to develop Syria’s port of Tartous, Syrian state news agency SANA said today, after the lifting of US sanctions cleared the way for the deal, Reuters reports. The […]
Read more »China Turns To PPP To Fund Big Projects In Africa
May 19th, 2025
Via South China Morning Post, a look at how Chinese companies are teaming up with African governments to fund infrastructure while reducing financial risk and easing debt pressure: China has turned to public-private partnerships (PPP) to finance big African infrastructure projects under a grand China investment initiative, a shift experts said could reduce Beijing’s financial risks while easing debt […]
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.