Washington Wants to Revive a Critical Minerals Mega-Railway Through Africa
March 3rd, 2024 Via Foreign Policy, an article on the Lobito Corridor: As geopolitical tensions electrify the global scramble for critical minerals—the raw materials that underpin advanced defense systems and [...]
Pakistan Will Build Pipeline to Iran to Import Natural Gas
March 3rd, 2024 Courtesy of Bloomberg, a report that Pakistan plans to build a pipeline to Iran to import natural gas: Pipeline faced delays over Pakistan’s concerns of sanctions Pakistan says its needs to [...]
Data Center Investments Shift To Emerging Markets Amidst Regulatory Scrutiny and Energy Needs
March 3rd, 2024 Via Frontier Market News, a look at how data center investment is shifting to emerging markets amid regulatory scrutiny and rising energy needs: The boom in artificial intelligence use and investment [...]
American Investors’ Multi-Billion-Dollar Green Hydrogen and Ammonia Plant in Chile Seeks Approval
March 3rd, 2024 Via Hydrogen Insight, a report on a planned multi-billion-dollar green hydrogen and ammonia plant in Chile, which aims to draw on high solar power potential in the Atacama Desert to power cheap [...]
Dirty Money Is Destroying Sudan
March 3rd, 2024 Via Foreign Affairs, commentary on how Middle Eastern countries whih see especially tempting opportunities to exploit Sudan’s natural resources, access its ports along the Red Sea, use it as a base [...]
China To Build Kenya’s AFCON Stadium
March 3rd, 2024 Via NTV Kenya, news that Kenya has signed up China Road and Bridge Corporation to build a 60,000-seat stadium in Nairobi for Africa’s biggest sporting competition, the Africa Cup of Nations [...]

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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.