5 Attractive Investment Destinations in Africa in 2024
January 3rd, 2024
Via Energy, Capital, and Power, a look at 5 attractive investment destinations in Africa in 2024: On the back of growing global demand and with a largely untapped resource portfolio, Africa is on the cusp of transforming its energy sector. Foreign investors are eager to capitalize on diversified supply chains while efforts by African governments […]
Read more »TechSafari: Four African Countries To Watch In 2024
December 21st, 2023
Via TechSafari, a look at Africa’s up and coming tech ecosystems in Ghana, Senegal, Morocco, and Zambia: It’s been a few wild years of funding in Africa, with ups and downs. But mostly ups. Last year, African startups raised about $5.4 billion – nearly a billion more than in 2021, and four times what they raised […]
Read more »West Africa’s Energy Transition Offers $1T+ in Investment Opportunities
December 11th, 2023
Via Energy, Capital, and Power, a report on West Africa’s energy transition: West Africa is home to a diverse landscape of energy players, from mature petroleum producers to emerging gas frontiers. For established markets, the energy transition requires decarbonizing and optimizing existing operations, while bringing renewable energy and carbon capture technologies to the forefront. Meanwhile, frontier […]
Read more »Tata Minibuses: Key To Success in Dakar
November 23rd, 2023
Via The Africa Report, a look at how a network of minibuses carries more than a million passengers a day in Dakar: Created in the early 2000s, the AFTU network of communal minibuses now carries more than a million passengers a day, mainly in and around the Senegalese capital Dakar. These white communal minibuses with […]
Read more »Senegal: An Economic Emergence In Waiting?
November 10th, 2023
Courtesy of The Africa Report, a look at Senegal’s economic future: Since Senegal’s President Macky Sall came to power in 2012, the country’s economic strategy has been successful, particularly in terms of infrastructure and energy. But on other fronts, including job creation, there is still much to be done. “No one attacks me on my […]
Read more »Saudi Arabia Signs More Than $500M in Deals with African Countries
November 10th, 2023
Via Al Monitor, an article recent agreements between Saudi Arabia and multiple African countries: Saudi Investment Minister Khalid Al-Falih said the kingdom’s sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund, will make some “game changing” investments in Africa. The Saudi Fund for Development plans to sign agreements worth some 2 billion riyals ($533 million) with African […]
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.