Can a Homegrown Telecom Firm Connect South Sudan to the World?
August 6th, 2025
Via The Economist, a look at whether a home-grown telecoms firm connect South Sudan to the world: What do Che Guevara, an Argentine revolutionary, and Tupac Shakur, an American rapper, have in common? Both were charismatic and died young. Yet De Chan Awuol, a South Sudanese telecoms executive, keeps their portraits on his wall in […]
Read more »South Sudan Visits UAE To Push for Investment
June 24th, 2025
Via North Africa Post, a report on South Sudan’s Salva Kiir on visit to UAE amid regional tensions and push for investment: South Sudanese President Salva Kiir Mayardit started on Sunday, June 22, an official visit to the United Arab Emirates, seeking to bolster trade, attract investment, and strengthen bilateral ties. This marks Kiir’s second […]
Read more »Amid Constant Conflict, South Sudan’s Economy Can’t Catch A Break
May 7th, 2025
Via The Economist, commentary on what a wrecked ferry reveals about war in South Sudan: Nobody is quite sure how the ferry sank. Ayuen Samuel, who manages the old shipyard in Juba, South Sudan’s capital, thinks it ran aground on this treacherous stretch of the White Nile after snapping its mooring. Others say it was hit […]
Read more »South Sudan’s Economic Crisis Threatens Its Fragile Peace
December 24th, 2024
Via The Economist, a report on what happens when a petrostate’s lifeline disappears overnight: SOUTH SUDAN could have been off to a good start. Thanks to its oil riches, the world’s youngest country qualified as a middle-income one when it got independence from Sudan in 2011. The new country also had minerals, livestock and timber for […]
Read more »Kiirdom: The Sprawling Corporate Kingdom of South Sudan’s First Family
November 20th, 2024
Via The Sentry, a report on South Sudan’s Kiir family’s secret business empire: Today, The Sentry published a massive trove of data exposing the control by the family of South Sudan President Salva Kiir over a secret business empire. “Kiirdom: The Sprawling Corporate Kingdom of South Sudan’s First Family,” provides a deep dive into the […]
Read more »Tullow CEO Sees Stunted Kenya Oil Project as Fix for South Sudan
November 8th, 2024
Via Bloomberg, an article on a possible option to help transport South Sudan oil: Oil company made Kenya discoveries more than a decade ago South Sudan’s exports have been held up by a broken pipeline Tullow Oil Plc’s delayed project to export oil from discoveries in Kenya by pipeline to the coast could be a […]
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.