Turkey’s High-Risk, High-Reward Wager in the Horn of Africa
April 11th, 2026
Via World Politics Review, a look at Turkey’s engagement in the Horn of Africa: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made his first trip to Ethiopia in over a decade in February as part of a regional tour that included stops in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. He received a red-carpet welcome in Addis Ababa, where Prime Minister Abiy […]
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 »Turkey Set for Gas-Exploration Deal After Wooing Ex-Libya Foes
August 24th, 2025
Via Bloomberg, an article on an agreement for Turkey to explore Libyan gas: Libya’s eastern parliament is set to vote on a 2019 pact that would allow Turkey to explore for energy in the North African nation’s waters. The agreement could kickstart oil and gas exploration by Turkish ships in a swathe of territory between […]
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 »The Unlikely Revival Of A Great Middle Eastern Railroad
March 15th, 2025
Via Noema, a report on how a railroad that once linked Damascus to Medina, its tracks and stations now crumbling into the desert or destroyed by treasure hunters, could help stitch a fragmented region back together: In the center of this city in southern Syria is a long, rectangular warehouse constructed of black basalt. It […]
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.