Sudan: All Roads Lead to Khartoum
Via Middle East Eye, a report on how Israeli and Russian delegations have been to Sudan in the last week, with US and EU envoys also present: Everyone is coming to Khartoum.  At the end of last [...]
DRC: A Favorable Destination For Manufacturing of Sustainable Battery Materials
Via BloombergNEF, a report on how producing battery materials in the DRC could lower supply-chain emissions and add value to the country’s cobalt:  The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) [...]
Zambia Has More Than Copper, Offers Unexplored Potential
Via The Africa Report, a look at Zambia’s unexplored potential: With billions of dollars worth of African gas, gold, copper and cobalt to hit the markets in 2022, industry players are focused [...]
China, US Deals and Robots Headline Saudi Arabia’s LEAP Tech Event
Via Al Monitor, a report on Saudi Arabia’s second LEAP technology event: Saudi Arabia’s second LEAP technology event on Tuesday saw a host of landmark partnerships and billion-dollar [...]
Gabon: Potential Raw Material Export Ban To Activate Value Chain Development
Courtesy of The Africa Report, an exclusive report on Gabon’s potential consideration of a raw material export ban as a means to activate their value chain development: Bans on the export of [...]
The Biggest Source Of Cobalt Outside Africa Is Now Indonesia
Via Bloomberg, a report on Indonesia’s cobalt potential: Indonesia has become the world’s second-largest cobalt producer, bolstering its bid to be a big player in the electric-vehicle supply [...]

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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.