What TotalEnergies Is Betting On Its Mozambique Megaproject
May 7th, 2025 Via The Africa Report, a report why TotalEnergies is now betting on its Mozambique megaproject: Halted since 2021 following a jihadist attack, the Mozambique LNG project is set to resume by mid-2025, [...]
Morocco’s High-Speed Railway — the Only One in Africa — Is Extending to Three Cities
May 5th, 2025 Via Nice News, an article on Morocco’s high-speed railway: Bullet trains have been all the rage in recent years. California has a project in the works, Europe is developing another [...]
How China Is Gaining Ground In the Middle East Cloud Computing Race
May 5th, 2025 Via Rest of World, a report on how Huawei and Alibaba are outpacing established U.S. providers by aligning with government priorities and addressing data sovereignty concerns: Chinese providers have [...]
Vietnam Is Running Out of Sand to Fuel an Economic Boom
May 4th, 2025 Via Bloomberg, a look at how a new crop of factories in Vietnam requires roads, and that means sand. To keep up, the country is importing from Cambodia on a massive scale: When President Donald Trump [...]
Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger To Have Access To The Atlantic Ocean
May 4th, 2025 Via Africa News, a report on the landlocked countries of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger which have endorsed an initiative by Morocco to give them access to the Atlantic Ocean: The foreign ministers of [...]
Inside the U.S. Battle with China Over an Island Paradise Deep in the Pacific
May 3rd, 2025 Via Reuters, an article on Palau – once the site of ferocious World War Two battles – it is again at the epicenter of a geostrategic tussle. America is building radar stations here, while [...]

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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.