Angola: Oil Dependency Leaves Thin Margin For China Debt Service
September 4th, 2024 Via The Africa Report, an article on Angola’s dependency on oil exports: Angola needs to diversify its economy away from oil – but oil receipts are the only way to pay for it. Rising Angolan [...]
China’s Mission To Win African Hearts With Satellite TV
September 3rd, 2024 Via BBC, an article on China’s mission to win African hearts with satellite TV: As African leaders gather in Beijing this week for the triennial China-Africa summit, Chinese President Xi [...]
How The Race For Green Energy Is Shaping Relations Between China and Africa
September 3rd, 2024 Via The Conversation, a report on how China’s interests in Africa are being shaped by the race for renewable energy: The global climate crisis has created a push for renewable energy technology – [...]
Uzbekistan Is Calling America. Will We Pick Up The Phone??
September 3rd, 2024 Via National Interest, a look at the potential growing relationship between the U.S. and Uzbekistan: Central Asia, particularly Uzbekistan, deserves more attention from America and the West. In the [...]
Djibouti to Offer Ethiopia Exclusive Port
September 2nd, 2024 Via Kenyan Wall Street, a report that Djibouti plans to offer Ethiopia an exclusive port space: In a move that might ease simmering tensions in the Horn of Africa, Djibouti has disclosed that it is [...]
Azerbaijan’s Middle Corridor Initiative: Pivot For Energy Connectivity
September 2nd, 2024 Via Eurasia Review, a report on Azerbaijan’s Middle Corridor initiative: Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (Middle Corridor) On August 30, Azerbaijan’s Minister of Finance Samir [...]

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WILDCATS AND BLACK SHEEP
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.