Egypt: Sisi’s House of Cards?
August 18th, 2022
Via Foreign Policy, commentary on the Egyptian President’s spending on projects of questionable value while his people are suffering: On Sunday, a horrific fire at a Coptic church in greater Cairo’s Imbaba neighborhood killed 41 people, including 18 children. It was the latest in a string of disasters that have recently befallen Egyptians. Since January 2021, Egypt has […]
Read more »Cuba: Allowing Foreign Investment In Wholesale and Retail Trade For First Time In 60 Years
August 17th, 2022
Via the BBC, a report that Cuba will allow foreign investment into its wholesale and retail trade to tackle its goods shortage: Cuba says it will allow foreign investors into its wholesale and retail trade for the first time in 60 years. The move is a major shift for the island nation’s Communist government, and overturns […]
Read more »Road To Nowhere? China’s Belt and Road Initiative At Tipping Point
August 16th, 2022
Courtesy of Nikkei Asia, a report on China BRI, and whether the Pakistan, Sri Lanka debt crises threaten Beijing’s regional influence: The drive to Pakistan’s port of Gwadar takes seven and a half hours from Karachi via the Makran coastal highway. Much of the 600-km route is deserted, with no restaurants, restrooms or even fuel stations. […]
Read more »India’s Challenge to Belt and Road in Asia
August 15th, 2022
Via the Geopolitical Monitor, an article on India’a challenge to China’s BRI in Asia: Over the past few years, and most notably during recent border clashes in Ladakh’s Galwan valley, China-India relations have been visibly more acrimonious, confusing, and inimical in diplomatic and military domains, despite their huge mutual business interests. In 2021, trade between the […]
Read more »Ecuador’s Distant Dream of a Green Recovery
August 14th, 2022
Via Foreign Policy, an article on Ecuador’s struggle to meet its climate goals under IMF austerity: Standing halfway up a hillside in the city’s outskirts, environmental engineer Andres Viteri Leroux peered down to a horizontal dirt shelf some 100 feet below. It was early December 2021, and he was visiting Ambato’s landfill. The dirt had been […]
Read more »Uganda Supports Somalia’s Bid To Join the EAC
August 14th, 2022
Via The Ugandan Monitor, a report on Ugandan President Museveni pledge to support Somalia in its bid to join the East African Community (EAC) : President Museveni has pledged to support Somalia in its bid to join the East African Community (EAC) and exploit trade opportunities that exist in the region. Mr Museveni said Somalia […]
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.