The Gulf’s Lifeline For Egypt Worries Cairo Residents
Via Semafor, a report on how the Gulf’s lifeline for Egypt is worrying Cairo’s residents: A Dubai-based billionaire’s plans to redevelop downtown Cairo with new streets and skyscrapers — an [...]
North Korea Stole Your Job
Via Wired, an article on how – for years – North Korea has been secretly placing young IT workers inside Western companies. With AI, their schemes are now more devious—and [...]
The Taliban’s Cyber Caliphate
Via Modern Diplomacy, a look at how the digital battleground has become an increasingly critical theatre for modern geopolitical conflicts, and the Taliban’s recent social media campaign targeting [...]
Quantum Qatar
Via Semafor, a report on Qatar’s $1 billion bet on quantum computing: Qatar plans to pour $1 billion over the next decade into quantum computing, one of the biggest government sponsorships of [...]
Starlink’s Pan-African Strategy: Byte by Byte
Via Semafor, a look at how Starlink is stitching together a pan-African strategy in small bytes: By the time Starlink, the satellite internet provider owned by billionaire Elon Musk’s Space X, [...]
China: The World’s First Electrostate?
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an excellent article with compelling graphs about China’s long march towards national electrification: China could be on its way to becoming the world’s first [...]

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WILDCATS AND BLACK SHEEP
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.