Seychelles and Mauritius Still Top African Investment Destinations
Via Bloomberg, an article on leading African investment destinations: Seychelles and Mauritius retained their ranking as Africa’s most attractive investment destinations, outperforming larger [...]
“This Is A New Era,” Syria Central Bank Says Amid Investment Push
Via Forbes, a report on Syria’s investment push: The civil war that tore through Syria for more than a decade claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, displaced millions, and shattered the [...]
Algeria : Sonatrach Expands its Footprint in Southern Africa
Via Africa News Agency, a report on Sonatrach expanding its footprint in Southern Africa: Algeria’s Sonatrach and Mozambique’s ENH (Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos E.P.) signed a memorandum [...]
India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor: Promise, Peril, and the Politics of Connectivity
Via Modern Diplomacy, a look at the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) which was announced as a transformative connectivity framework which aims to link India, the Arabian Peninsula, [...]
Bloomberg: Investor’s Guide To Africa
Courtesy of Bloomberg, a look inside six industries on the rise in Africa’s most investable economies. Global investors are looking at the 54 nations that make up Africa with fresh eyes, not [...]
World Needs More Launchpads. Oman Wants To Help.
Via Rest of World, a look at Oman’s efforts to build a space industry from scratch: Oman’s dream for a spaceport sits in a swath of desert overlooking the Arabian Sea. If all goes according [...]

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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.