Congo’s Gecamines and Entreprise Generale du Cobalt Sign Mining Deal
Via Reuters, a report on a recent deal between the DRC’s Gecamines and Entreprise Generale du Cobalt: Congo’s state mining company Gecamines and its subsidiary Entreprise Generale du [...]
Indonesia And China’s Trains
Via Eurasia Review, commentary on China’s significant investment presence in Indonesia: China’s huge leverage in Indonesia has impacted Indonesia’s economic development. Over a decade, [...]
America Should Not Allow its Trade Programme with Africa To Die
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an argument that America’s Growth and Opportunity Act should be reimagined and made fit for an era of renewed great power competition in Africa: It is often [...]
For First Time in Two Decades, U.S. Buys More From Mexico Than China
Via The New York Times, a report on data showing that the United States bought more goods from Mexico than China in 2023 for the first time in 20 years, evidence of how much global trade patterns [...]
Fancy a Safari? African Countries On Hunt for Lion’s Share of Chinese Tourists
Via South China Morning Post, an article on African tour operators’ efforts to lure more Chinese tourists: After three years cut off from China’s sprawling pool of cash-strapped travellers, [...]
DRC: Trafigura, Ivanhoe Sign Copper Export Deal via US-Backed Corridor
Courtesy of The Africa Report, an article on the recent announcement that two firms, Singapore-based Trafigura and Canada’s Ivanhoe Mines, signed a major deal to export copper along a US-backed [...]

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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.