In Afghanistan’s Taxi Industry, the Taliban Show How They Govern
Via New Lines Magazine, a report on the Afghan taxi industry and how new uniform cab colors aim at demonstrating the regime’s abilities: On May 20, days after the Kabul General Directorate of [...]
Move Over Dubai. This Tiny Emirate Wants to Be the Next Haven for Billionaires
Courtesy of Bloomberg, a report on how Ras Al Khaimah looks to lure rich from around the world From the top of the RAK International Corporate Centre, foreign tycoons can catch a glimpse of a city [...]
How Wagner Teamed up with the CAR’s Diamond Mafia
Courtesy of The Africa Report, a look at how the Wagner group has taken control of the Central African diamond sector: A stone’s throw away, the river Kotto flows slowly, waiting to empty into the [...]
In Iraq and Algeria, TotalEnergies Signs Major Deals
Via Al Monitor, an article on new deals between Iraq and TotalEnergies that aim to help Iraq fix its longstanding power issues: French energy giant TotalEnergies has signed major deals [...]
UAE Secures Rights to DRC Gold Exports for 25 Years
Via Middle East Monitor, a report on a recent agreement between the DRC and UAE for export rights to locally extracted gold: The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has signed an [...]
East Africa: Leveraging Natural Proximity to India, China, and the Gulf
The recently released report by McKinsey & Company on reimagining economic growth in Africa offers a wealth of valuable insights and analyses. However, one aspect that I believe received [...]

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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.