Sahel Vacuum Provides Opportunities For China
January 18th, 2025
Via VOA, a report on how the Sahel vacuum provides opportunities for China: Stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, Africa’s Sahel region is experiencing security problems and surging anti-Western sentiment that could prove an opportunity for China, analysts say. China’s top diplomat was in the volatile Sahel last week as a part […]
Read more »PGI’s Lobito Corridor Rail Network to Unlock African Copper Belt
January 17th, 2025
Via Fast Markets, an article on how Africa’s first transcontinental rail network, known as the Lobito Corridor, which aims to eventually connect almost the entire regional copper-cobalt belt with additional links across sub-Saharan Africa, is on track to break ground early in 2026: The project will link Angola and Zambia by rail for the first […]
Read more »UAE, Italy and Albania Team up to Build $1bn Undersea Energy Cable
January 17th, 2025
Via The National, a report on a project that will see clean energy produced in Albania exported to Italy across the Adriatic as part of the three-nation agreement: The UAE, Italy and Albania are teaming up to build a subsea interconnector for exporting renewable energy across the Adriatic. As part of the deal, green power produced in Albania […]
Read more »Game Over for France in Africa
January 17th, 2025
Via Geopolitical Futures, commentary on how the loss of influence implicates more than just Paris: “I think someone forgot to say thank you.” This loaded statement, made by French President Emmanuel Macron at the 30th annual Ambassadors’ Conference in Paris, reveals much about the state of French foreign policy toward Africa. Not only does it […]
Read more »DRC Courts Saudi Investment To Help Curb Chinese Mining Dominance
January 17th, 2025
Via Reuters, a report on Congo’s efforts to court Saudi mining investors to help curb China dominance in the sector: The Democratic Republic of Congo, the world’s top cobalt supplier, is courting new mining investors from Saudi Arabia to help it diversify and curb overreliance on companies from China, Marcellin Paluku, a senior government official, […]
Read more »China and Sri Lanka Eye New Phase of BRI with $3.7bn Investment
January 17th, 2025
Via Nikkei Asia, an article on China’s renewed BRI interest in Sri Lanka: Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake will wrap up his inaugural visit to China Friday after securing a landmark investment deal that can help his country’s struggling economy, while adding value to Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative projects in the strategically-located island. […]
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.