Sierre Leone’s $150M Digital Hub Strategy
June 18th, 2024
Via Semafor, a report on Sierre Leone’s digital hub investment strategy: Sierra Leone is seeking to raise up to $150 million to roll out a far reaching digital innovation strategy led by a new Tech City hub. The plan incorporates job creation, training, entrepreneurship, and efforts to attract investment. Technology minister Salima Bah, who is […]
Read more »Idris Elba ‘Dreams Big’ with Sierra Leone Eco-City Plan for Sherbro Island
March 17th, 2024
Via BBC, a report on Idris Elba’s eco-city plan for Sherbro Island in Sierre Leone: Hollywood actor Idris Elba has a “big dream” for Sierra Leone, the West African nation where his father was born – to regenerate a beautiful island off its coast and turn it into an eco-friendly “smart city”. “Originally we went […]
Read more »Acumen, Climate Fund Have $250 Million Solar Plan for Africa’s Poorest Nations
December 5th, 2023
Via Bloomberg, an article on the Hardest-To-Reach Initiative: Hardest-to-Reach Initiative focuses on 16 African nations Countries targeted include Congo, Somalia and Sierra Leone The world’s biggest climate fund is backing Acumen, a US-based company that promotes universal energy access, in establishing a $250 million facility to bring electricity from off-grid solar projects to 72 million […]
Read more »Building Investment Pathways in the World’s Most Neglected Markets
October 20th, 2023
Courtesy of ImpactAlpha, a look at the challenge of mobilizing capital for some of the world’s most neglected markets in Africa: “Mobilize” may be the word of the year for emerging markets investments. Africa alone needs an additional $100 billion annually for infrastructure development to meet climate and sustainable development goals. Some markets grapple with […]
Read more »Can Africa’s First Heat Officer Make Freetown Livable?
January 17th, 2023
Courtesy of the New York Times, an interesting article on Freetown’s efforts to combat the city’s rising temperatures: Before Sierra Leone’s capital of Freetown exploded into a sprawling metropolis — eating up wooded hills and encroaching on the Atlantic — Eugenia Kargbo loved it for the pristine beaches and lush forests that once enveloped the […]
Read more »Nets, Buoys, Salt, Ice. For West African Fishermen, ‘Everything’ Is Going Up.
January 1st, 2023
Courtesy of the New York Times, a report on the impact of inflation on Sierre Leone’s fishermen: Fishermen in Sierra Leone need large amounts of ice to store their catch on multiday journeys. Like many commodities, it has become pricey. His red soccer jersey and shorts soaked in salty water, Edison Fofana loaded his boat […]
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.