Uzbekistan The Big Winner In China’s New Central Asian CKU Railway
Via Silk Road Briefing, an article on the CKU Railways which is expected to create significant trade opportunities for Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan while linking China directly to the Middle East via [...]
‘From Russia With Love’: A Putin Ally Mines Gold and Plays Favorites in Sudan
Courtesy of The New York Times, a report on how the shadowy network known as the Wagner Group is getting rich in Sudan while helping the military to crush a democracy movement: In a scorched, [...]
The ‘Satchetisation’ of Africa’s Largest Economy
Via Al Jazeera, an article on how high poverty and inflation rates in Nigeria are leading many businesses, including those in tech, to adopt sachet marketing to survive: In February 2019, [...]
China-Timor Leste To Boost Trade & Investment Cooperation
Via Silk Road Briefing, an article on trade relations between China and Timor Leste: China’s Foreign Minister, Wang Yi has been visiting the South Pacific Islands, with Papua New Guinea and [...]
Tata Power Bets On Microgrids For Rural Power Supply In India
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on Tata Group’s plan to build 10,000 small local arrays in a country where not everyone has reliable electricity from the grid: Manoj Gupta has spent [...]
Will Turkmenistan Join the World Trade Organization?
Courtesy of The Diplomat, a report on Turkmenistan’s WTO ambitions: In November 2021, Turkmenistan formally applied to become a full member of the World Trade Organization (WTO). WTO [...]

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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.