Afghanistan-Iran Complete First Trial Run of Khaf-Herat Railway
Via The Diplomat, a report on how Afghanistan and Iran – two countries faced with sanctions and political isolation – are working together to avoid becoming completely isolated from [...]
Will Egypt Join BRICS And Adopt A New Currency?
Via Modern Diplomacy, an article on how BRICS nations are looking to establish their own currency, in order to decrease the influence of the US in the global trade market by means of [...]
Angola: Ready To Switch Allegiance From Russia To U.S.
Courtesy of The Africa Report, a report on Angola’s stated tendency to ditch Russia for US as Lourenço eyes third term: From arms sales to green energy to direct flights, Luanda is forging [...]
Getting Modern Internet to Yemen
Via The Wilson Center, commentary on the need to get modern internet to Yemen: Yemen has the worst internet access in the world. In 2023, Starlink agreed on a preliminary contract to provide [...]
Vladivostok To Become A Transit Port For Chinese Shipments
Courtesy of Clingendael China Center, analysis of a recent announcement that Vladivostok will become a transit port for Chinese shipments: Historically, during the Qing Dynasty, Vladivostok and its [...]
Green Hydrogen: Namibia’s Lessons To The World
Via The Namibian, commentary on Namibia’s hydrogen future: The signing of the Feasibility and Implementation Agreement (FIA) between the Namibian Government and Hyphen to produce green hydrogen [...]

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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.