Egypt Signs €8B Deal With Siemens For High-Speed Rail System
Via Deutsche Welle, a report on Egypt’s plan to build the world’s sixth-largest rail network, with tracks connecting cities along the Nile with the Red and Mediterranean seas: [...]
China-Laos Railway: Next Stop – Thailand
Via Silk Road Briefing, an article on the Sino-Thai railway that is currently under construction: The China-Laos Railway which opened late last year, is being extended through to Thailand. The Laos [...]
Green Upheaval: New Geopolitics of Energy
Courtesy of Foreign Affairs, an article on the new geopolitics of energy: It is not hard to understand why people dream of a future defined by clean energy. As greenhouse gas emissions continue to [...]
Skirting Russian Black Sea Blockade To Feed The World’s Hungriest Is Mission Of Yemen’s Biggest Company
Courtesy of Forbes, an article on Yemen’s biggest company’s efforts to feed hungry Yemenis: Yemen’s civil war has killed hundreds of thousands and left many of the survivors without [...]
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, [...]

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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.