Who Will Be Pakistan’s First Unicorn?
Via Rest of World, a look at how Pakistani startups are having a dazzling run, and the country might get its first billion-dollar venture soon: The Pakistani tech startup industry witnessed many [...]
US, China Vie for Africa’s Mobile Phone Sector
Via Voice of America, an article on the competition between the U.S. and China for influence over Africa’s telecommunications industry: Africa, in recent years, has become the new frontier [...]
CNOOC Starts Drilling In Brazilian Waters
Via Week in China, an article on CNOOC’s drilling activity in Brazilian waters: Saudi Aramco is jostling with Apple once again for the title of the world’s most valuable company, helped by [...]
It’s Africa’s Century
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, a report on Africa’s century ahead: In the coming decades, we face a revolutionary shift in the balance of world affairs—and it is likely not the one you are [...]
First Flight in Six Years Takes Off from Yemen’s Sana’a Airport
Via Tasnim News, a report that commercial aviation is returning to Yemen: Yemen’s first commercial flight in six years, which took off on Monday morning to the Jordanian capital Amman, carried [...]
China and Uzbekistan: An Emerging Development Partnership?
Courtesy of The Diplomat, an article on how Uzbekistan is leveraging its partnership with China to address the logistical and geographic challenges it faces: Uzbekistan has been expanding its [...]

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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.