Ethiopia Offers Airline Stake to Somaliland for Sea Access
January 2nd, 2024 Courtesy of Bloomberg, a report that Ethiopia offered Somaliland a stake in Ethiopian Airlines in return for sea access: Agreement will give Somaliland stake in Ethiopian Airlines Ethiopia’s [...]
Catching Rays: Latin America Purchasing Billons of Dollars of Chinese Solar Panels
January 2nd, 2024 Courtesy of Latinometrics, a look at Latin American’s significant investment in Chinese solar panels: In the last six years, Latin America has imported $26B — or almost twice the GDP of [...]
IMF Sees Mauritania Growth Almost Tripling on Gas Exports
January 2nd, 2024 Via Bloomberg, an article on Mauritania’s economic growth: Growth forecast at 5.1% in 2024 and 14.3% in 2025 on gas yield Mauritania gas exports may offer alternative supply for Europe [...]
Argentina Pulls Out of Plans to Join BRICS Bloc
January 1st, 2024 Courtesy of BBC, a report that Argentina’s new President, Javier Milei, has withdrawn the country from its planned entry into the expanding Brics club of nations: Argentina’s new [...]
Ethiopia Signs Pact to Use Somaliland’s Red Sea Port
January 1st, 2024 Courtesy of Reuters, a report on Ethiopian plans to use Somaliland’s Red Sea port: Landlocked Ethiopia signed an initial agreement with Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland on Monday [...]
Namibia: Plans To Manufacture Solar Panels, Copper Cables, Electrolysers, and Wind Turbines
January 1st, 2024 Via The Extractor, an article on Namibia’s plans to manufacture solar panels, copper cables, electrolysers, and wind turbines: Namibia has identified 15 industries across four categories to [...]

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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.