Archive for the ‘Seychelles’ Category

Seychelles and Mauritius Still Top African Investment Destinations
October 28th, 2025

Via Bloomberg, an article on leading African investment destinations: Seychelles and Mauritius retained their ranking as Africa’s most attractive investment destinations, outperforming larger economies, including Egypt, South Africa and Morocco. Ivory Coast was the country whose ranking advanced the most, moving into the top 10 from 16th place, thanks to its widening access to electricity […]

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China Piles the Pressure on India in Its Own Backyard
March 12th, 2025

Via Bloomberg, a report on Diego Garcia, a remote Indian Ocean island nearly 2,000 miles from the East African coast, boasts clear-blue waters, pristine beaches — and a US-UK military base at the heart of the great-power chess match involving the US, China and India. The British territory in the Chagos Archipelago – which has […]

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Wildcats & Black Sheep is a personal interest blog dedicated to the identification and evaluation of maverick investment opportunities arising in frontier - and, what some may consider to be, “rogue” or “black sheep” - markets around the world.

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.

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