UAE Firm To Run Flight Services On Afghan Airports
Via The Diplomat, a report on how, under a new contract, an Abu Dhabi-based firm will manage flights at Afghanistan’s three major airports: Kabul, Herat, and Kandahar: The Taliban and the Abu [...]
Is North Korea’s Economy In Crisis?
Courtesy of North Korea Economy Watch, commentary on the state of North Korea’s economy: Is the North Korean economy in a crisis following years of tough sanctions and the Covid-19 border [...]
Francophone Africa’s First Unicorn Is Disrupting The Region’s Mobile Money Market
Courtesy of Rest of World, an article on how Wave’s rise has burst open the mobile money landscape in Senegal by fueling competition with existing players: From the confines of a light-blue [...]
Lithium Monopoly in the Making? Beijing Expands in the Lithium Triangle
Via Geopolitical Monitor, a report on China’s growing engagement in the “Lithium Triangle”: China aims to expand its influence in the “Lithium Triangle” as a component of a [...]
BRI: An Old Belt Being Pushed Aside?
Via The Diplomat, a look at how the BRI is becoming less and less prominent in Chinese leaders’ speeches as the Global Development Initiative takes over: Nearly a decade after its launch, the Belt [...]
Russia’s Inroads Into Africa
Courtesy of The Financial Times, commentary on Russia’s inroads into Africa: That China has made huge diplomatic, commercial and strategic inroads in Africa is news to no one. That Russia has [...]

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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.