Houthis and Yemeni Government Agree To End Economic Hostilities, Expand Yemenia Flights
July 23rd, 2024 Courtesy of Arab News, a report that Yemen’s internationally recognized government has reached an agreement with the Houthis, facilitated by Saudi Arabia, to lift economic sanctions and increase [...]
Turkiye To Send Navy to Somalia After Agreeing Oil and Gas Search
July 23rd, 2024 Via Arab News, a report on the growing collaboration between Turkiye and Somalia: Turkiye has become a close ally of the Somali government in recent years. Ankara has built schools, hospitals and [...]
Cote d’Ivoire Tilts Economy From Farming To Natural Resources
July 23rd, 2024 Via Terra Daily, an article on Cote d’Ivoire’s economic shift towards natural resources: The discovery of huge deposits of natural resources including oil, gas and gold in the Ivory Coast [...]
Dangote’s Standoff With Nigeria Intensifies, Risking Investments
July 23rd, 2024 Via Bloomberg, an article on Dangote’s standoff with Nigeria: Billionaire scraps plan to invest in a domestic steel plant Tycoon says his refinery produces the ‘best’ diesel in Nigeria Aliko [...]
Algeria Stands as Russia’s Gateway to Maghreb Region
July 23rd, 2024 Via Modern Diplomacy, a report on how Russian-Algerian bilateral trade turnover increased 2.2 times and at the end of 2023 reached $3.765 billion, according to an official report: Russian-Algerian [...]
China’s Long March through the Global South
July 22nd, 2024 Courtesy of The Asia Times, a report on China’s growing influence in the Global South, and how the US should combine with Japan, South Korea and Germany to compete; together they have more [...]

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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.