Ethiopia’s Call for Foreign Investment In Its Banking Sector Comes With Strings
Via Semafor, commentary on Ethiopia’s call for foreign investment in its banking sector: Ethiopia’s central bank is fast-tracking the rollout of a new legal framework to spur foreign competition [...]
AMEA Power To Develop Solar, Wind, Green Hydrogen in Mauritania
Via Energy, Capital, and Power, a report on an Emirati firm’s plans to develop solar, wind, and green hydrogen in Mauritania: Emirati renewable energy firm, AMEA Power, inked two Memoranda of [...]
Mexico’s New Miltary Run Commercial Airline Will Start Flying With Miltary Planes After Lease Falls Through
Via Paddle Your Own Canoe, a report that Mexico’s new miltary-run commercial airline will start flying with miltary planes after lease deal falls through: The Mexican government’s plan to revive [...]
Petrobras Looks to China for Green Partners – and More Oil
Via Dialogo Chino, a report on Petrobras, Brazil’s state oil firm, which has signed deals with Chinese companies on clean energy and oil exploration: As the COP28 climate conference opens in Dubai [...]
Forget Netflix and Disney: A Local Streaming Service is King in Indonesia
Via Rest of World, a look at how Indonesia’s Vidio cracked the code for what the masses actually watch, drawing tens of millions with teen fiction adaptations and premium sports. In late [...]
Making Africa the Animation Capital of the World:
Via Next Billion, a look at Africa’s growing animation industry: Africa has an incredibly rich history in storytelling. In fact, the beginning of imaginative expression has been said 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.