China Carves Path To Indian Ocean With Myanmar Rail Network
Via Nikkei Asia, an article on China’s BRI investment in Myanmar: When the West cut off aid to Myanmar after the military took control in 2021, China rushed to fill the vacuum under its Belt [...]
Somalia Signs Oil Production-Sharing Agreement With US Company
Via Bloomberg, a report that Somalia has signed an oil production-sharing agreement with a US company: Somalia’s government signed an oil-production sharing agreement with US-based Coastline [...]
Safaricom’s Ethiopia Market Strategy
Via Business Daily Africa, a look at Safaricom’s recent entry to Ethiopia, the first competitive telco to the state run provider in history: Listed telco Safaricom has recently made its [...]
New Era of China’s Belt and Road Initiative Will See Less Risk and More Focus
Via the South China Morning Post, commentary on how the new era of China’s BRI is likely to see a more focused portfolio, greater international cooperation on finance and repaired relationships: [...]
Creativity Key For U.S. To Best China In Infrastructure Race
Via Nikkei Asia, commentary on how the US government’s PGII can take lessons from successes involving private sector: The White House has styled the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and [...]
Dance Around China’s Overseas Projects
Via Belt and Road blog, commentary on the BRI and China’s overseas projects: China dominates the world in its overseas development finance into power plants, mines, dams, and other [...]

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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.