Central African Nations Eye Pipelines and Hubs To End Energy Poverty
Via Reuters, an article on multiple Central African nations eying pipelines and hubs to end energy poverty: Central African countries signed a deal on Thursday to create a regional oil and gas [...]
Timor Leste Says China Could Fund Major Pipeline Project
Via Oil and Gas Daily, a report that China could help fund a major pipeline project in Timor Leste: East Timor leader Jose Ramos-Horta on Wednesday said China could help fund a vast fossil fuel [...]
How Mongolia Is Handling Its Mining Bonanza
Via Global Asia, a look at how Mongolia’s dependence on mining has intensified in recent decades: Is Mongolia’s prosperity being built at the expense of its future stagnation? A growing [...]
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 [...]

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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.