The Horn Of Africa States: The Coming Danger To Its Blue Economy
May 10th, 2024
Via Eurasia Review, commentary on the proposed East African Federation: The East African Federation is a proposition on the table. It is to be a union of the eight EAC members and any other member that would join it in the future into a single federated sovereign state. The current members include in Alphabetical order […]
Read more »Russia Considering Creating Ports in Tanzania, Senegal, Algeria and Egypt
April 24th, 2024
Via Russia’s TASS News, a report that Russia is considering the possibility of creating ports in Tanzania, Senegal, Algeria and Egypt: Russia is considering the creation of ports to organize the flow of domestic goods with African countries, in particular in Tanzania, Senegal, Algeria and Egypt. Roman Chekushov, director of the department of international cooperation […]
Read more »African Coastal Nations See Opportunities While Landlocked Pay The Price
April 14th, 2024
Via The East African, an article on the opportunities seen by African coastal nations: Summary UNCTAD says long distances to the sea, poor road or railway have left these countries “with far higher bills to import and export goods by road and rail. In many places, poor infrastructure and border bureaucracy add time, cost and […]
Read more »China Steers Course for African Ports In Renewed Diplomatic Push
April 14th, 2024
Via China Strategy, a report on China’s interest in African ports via a renewed diplomatic push” On March 23, the ships arrived in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, for a five-day stopover before heading to the port of Maputo in Mozambique on April 1 for another five-day tour. While in Tanzania, representatives visited the Dar es […]
Read more »Tanzania Wooing Chinese Tourists With New Documentary
April 7th, 2024
Via Semafor, an article on Tanzania’s efforts to use media to attract Chinese tourists: Tanzania is once again turning to film to attract tourists but this time focused on visitors from China. A new documentary, dubbed “Amazing Tanzania,” is scheduled to premiere in May featuring Chinese actor Jin Dong, who is also a tourism goodwill ambassador […]
Read more »Tanzania’s Richest Man Wants To Be Africa’s Biggest Farmer
March 14th, 2024
Courtesy of Forbes, a report on one man’s vision to transform Tanzania into an agribusiness powerhouse: Puffing on a nicotine vape and seated on a white leather chair in his $50 million home in Dubai, Mohammed “Mo” Dewji is waxing poetic about his plans to mechanize farming 2,500 miles away. “I want to make Africa, […]
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.