China Focuses on Africa’s Strategic Trade Routes
January 7th, 2026
Via Reuters, a report on China’s renewed Africa focus on strategic trade routes: China’s FM to visit Ethiopia, Somalia, Tanzania and Lesotho Trip extends 36-year-old tradition of making first trip to Africa African states looking for investment over loans – analyst China’s top diplomat began his annual New Year tour of Africa on Wednesday, focusing […]
Read more »Despite Danger, Somalia Experiencing Tourism Surge
November 17th, 2025
Via CNN, a report on tourism in Somalia: For decades, Somalia’s name has been shorthand for conflict, piracy and danger. Since the country’s civil war began in the 1990s, the country has had relatively few Western visitors. Yet, against the odds, the East African nation is now seeing a quiet rise in foreign tourists. About 10,000 tourists […]
Read more »Türkiye: ‘Front-Runner’ in Investments in Somalia
October 21st, 2025
Via A News, a report on Türkiye’s growing investment interest in Somalia: Türkiye is a front-runner in investments in Somalia, said the chief economic adviser to the African country’s president. “The international community has been providing support to Somalia, the World Bank, the IMF, and bilateral countries … Türkiye is one of those countries,” Hassan Adam Hosow, […]
Read more »Hydrocarbons and Hegemony: Türkiye’s Oil and Gas Exploration in Somalia
June 4th, 2025
Via Modern Diplomacy, a look at Türkiye’s oil and gas exploration in Somalia: In crafting the emotions and sentiments of societies and nations, misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation are efficacious and potent tools in shaping minds, opinions, and worldviews. In our contemporary age of hyper-technological development and digital immersion, misinformation and disinformation are wielded as powerful […]
Read more »Why Somalia’s Oil Deal with Turkiye is Facing Growing Backlash
April 27th, 2025
Via The Africa Report, an article on why Somalia’s oil deal with Turkiye is facing growing backlash: Billed as a win-win for development, the pact has ignited sharp criticism, with opponents arguing it grants Ankara outsized control and chips away at Mogadishu’s sovereignty. Turkiye’s ambitions in the Horn of Africa have taken a significant leap […]
Read more »Starlink Coming to Somalia, But Regional Tensions Lurk
April 24th, 2025
Via The Africa Report, commentary on Starlink’s entry in to the Somali market: The Somali government’s recent approval of a licence for US-based Starlink to operate in Somalia represents a milestone, as one of the few foreign companies set to begin operations in the country, but what does this mean for current geopolitical tensions? Elon […]
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.