Trans-Afghan Railway to Connect Uzbekistan with Pakistan
Via Dawn, a report on a planned trans-Afghan railway, connecting Uzbekistan with Pakistan: Pakis­tan, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan will sign a joint protocol on Tuesday (today) to connect the Uzbek [...]
Morocco: Managem Bets on Cobalt
Courtesy of The Africa Report, an article on Moroccan mining group Managem’s plans to start building a cobalt-processing plant by 2025: Managem, the Moroccan mining group majority-owned by the [...]
Uzbekistan Built a $580M Tourist Draw, but Will They Come?
Courtesy of Nikkei Asia, a look at Uzbekistan’s ambitious tourism strategy: A canal surrounds Uzbekistan’s Silk Road Samarkand Tourist Complex. Opened in 2022, the site is at the center [...]
Saudi Arabia’s Neom Seeks $2.7 Billion Loan to Build Futuristic City
Via Bloomberg, an article on Saudi Arabia’s efforts to secure a $2.7 Billion Loan to build Neom: Saudi Arabia’s Neom, the company developing Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s flagship [...]
The Emerging World’s Diabetes Problem
Looking at the Visual Capitalist’s diabetes rates by country in 2021, a worrying trend quickly becomes clear: developing countries such as Pakistan, Egypt, Mexico, and the Pacific Island states [...]
Why the U.S. is Losing Africa to China and Russia
Courtesy of Modern Diplomacy, commentary on why the U.S. is Losing Africa to China and Russia: The presence of Chinese in Africa has generated differing debates about the real reason they are there. [...]

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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.