Indonesia’s Nickel Riches Spur Domestic EV, Battery Ambitions
Courtesy of Nikkei Asia, a look at how Indonesia’s nickel riches are spurring local company EV, battery ambitions: FROM COAL MINERS TO CONGLOMERATES, INDONESIA’S BURGEONING ELECTRIC [...]
Ethiopia’s Plans To Open Its Banking Sector
Courtesy of The Africa Report, a look at Ethiopia’s planned banking sector reform: Ethiopia is on the cusp. Since Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed came into office in April 2018, Ethiopia has laid [...]
Zimbabwe Plans New National Capital
Via Bloomberg, a report that Zimbabwe’s leader is seeking investment for a new national capital with luxury homes just down the road from an impoverished and overcrowded Harare: Zimbabwe’s [...]
China and Ethiopia: The Addis Light Train Stuck in Slow Motion
Via The Diplomat, a look at Sub-Saharan Africa’s first inner-city tram project which – hailed as historic in 2015 – faces more problems than ever seven years later: The Addis Ababa [...]
South Sudan: The World’s Newest Country Is Broken and Forgotten. Enter Pope Francis.
Courtesy of The New York Times, an article on how the soaring hopes at South Sudan’s creation in 2011 have been cruelly dashed: It is just over a decade since the steamy capital of South Sudan [...]
Once The Promise of Hope in Haiti, Textile Parks Laying Off Thousands
Via the Miami Herald, an article on the continuing challenges of building businesses in Haiti: The Korean textile company that for a decade anchored the United States’ largest investment in a [...]

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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.