How Mobile Money Is Bringing Electricity to the World’s Poorest
Courtesy of Bloomberg, an article on how startup Altech has expanded sixfold in two years with pay-as-you-go solar installations in the Congo: As a teenager, Washikala Malango’s family fled a [...]
Niger, China Discuss Uranium Mine and Other Deals
Courtesy of VOA News, a report on growing Chinese interest in Niger: The West African nation of Niger and China have been discussing deals that include an industrial park, an oil pipeline and a [...]
Vietnam Business Opportunities Aplenty in Ascendant SEAsia: HSBC Exec
Via The Investor.VN, a look at Vietnam’s investment potential from one senior banker’s perspective: Southeast Asia remains the world’s growth engine, and as an important economy in the [...]
Chinese Mining Company To Invest $350M In Afghanistan
Via The Frontier Post, a report on a planned Chinese investment in Afghanistan: Fan China Afghan Mining Processing and Trading Company (FAMPTC) stated on Thursday that it would spend $350 million in [...]
Trafigura-Led Group to Invest $555 Million in Angola Railway
Courtesy of Bloomberg, a look at plans by a group of investors led by commodity trader Trafigura to invest as much as $555 million in a railway project that will link the Angolan port of Lobito to [...]
Land Ports on China-Russia Border Break Train Trips Record
Via New Silk Road Discovery, a report on growing China-Europe trade via rail: The largest land port on the China-Russia border, Manzhouli in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, and Suifenhe Port, [...]

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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.