North Korean Exports Hit Record High Since UN Sanctions Took Full Effect
Via The Diplomat, a look at North Korea’s exports, which overwhelmingly go to China – and rely on a single (and surprising) export category: After years of disruption from United Nations [...]
TechSafari: Four African Countries To Watch In 2024
Via TechSafari, a look at Africa’s up and coming tech ecosystems in Ghana, Senegal, Morocco, and Zambia: It’s been a few wild years of funding in Africa, with ups and downs. But mostly ups. [...]
Papua New Guinea Will Not Be ‘Reckless’ With China Loans: PM
Via France24, an article on Papua New Guinea’s use of BRI funding: Papua New Guinea’s prime minister has promised to tread carefully with Belt and Road funding from China, telling AFP on [...]
Pakistan: How Energy Traders Left A Country In The Cold
Courtesy of Bloomberg, a look at how commodity traders switched off Pakistan’s electricity: Toward the end of 2021, in an office block above the luxury boutiques of Geneva’s Rue du [...]
Africa’s Resource Giant Votes With Role in Climate Future:
Courtesy of Bloomberg, a report on the DRC’s election: Voters in the Democratic Republic of Congo are to decide the fate of a nation that could drive the global energy transition and help shape [...]
Far Away From Houston, a U.S. Energy Partner Waits: Kazakhstan
Via Real Clear Energy, an article on Kazakhstan: A key piece of America’s low-carbon future sits in the steppes of Central Asia. The path there is not along the transportation corridors Xi [...]

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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.