Egypt Bagged, AngloGold Ashanti Sets Its Sights On Côte d’Ivoire
Via The Africa Report, a look at AngloGold Ashanti’s ambitions in Côte d’Ivoire: South Africa’s AngloGold Ashanti is preparing to gain a foothold in Egypt and Côte d’Ivoire after [...]
Eswatini: Chinese Roots Deepen In Africa’s Last Taiwan Holdout
Courtesy of Semafor, an article on China’s growing efforts to woo, Eswatini, Taiwan’s last African ally: China is building up its business and economic interests in Eswatini in a sign [...]
Moldova’s Gas Futures
Via the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a report on Moldova’s gas future: Until 2022, Moldova received all its gas from Russia and the vast majority of its electricity from a [...]
Why Ace Hardware Is ‘Leaving’ Indonesia
Via The Diplomat, a report on the strength of Indonesia’s retail market, which is not as weak as Ace Hardware’s recent move might suggest: It was recently announced that Ace Hardware, the [...]
China’s African Bet and Vice Versa: A Positive-Sum Game?
Via The Diplomat, commentary on how – despite criticism and skepticism – China seems to be Africa’s last hope, if not its best bet: The Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) summit [...]
Chad’s Cash Cow Gum Arabic Fine?Tunes Its Future
Via The Africa Report, a report on Chad’s gum arabic industry: As the world’s second largest producer of acacia gum, Chad is benefitting from rising prices linked to the war in neighbouring [...]

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Wildcats & Black Sheep is a personal interest blog dedicated to the identification and evaluation of maverick investment opportunities arising in frontier - and, what some may consider to be, “rogue” or “black sheep” - markets around the world.

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.