Uzbekistan Looks South for New Trade Routes
Via The Diplomat, a report on Uzbekistan search for new trade routes to the south: Uzbekistan has received its first transit shipment via Pakistan and Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. For Uzbekistan, [...]
PEACE Launch: Kenya’s New Internet Cable
Via The East African, an article on Kenya’s new $399m internet cable which it hopes will help it unlock the digital economy: Thirteen years since Kenya welcomed its first ever fibre optic [...]
Centerra and Kyrgyzstan: Nearing Deal To Split For Good?
Via The Diplomat, an article on the likely split between Centerra and Kyrgyzstan: Back in January, Canadian mining firm Centerra Gold confirmed that it was in talks with the Kyrgyz government for [...]
DRC Becomes The Biggest Country in East Africa’s Trading Bloc
Via Quartz, an article on the Democratic Republic of Congo becoming the biggest country in East Africa’s trading bloc: Trade in eastern Africa is set for a boost after officially welcoming its [...]
China Eyes Investment in Afghanistan’s Mes Aynak Mines
Via The Diplomat, an article on China’s renewed interest in Afghanistan’s Mes Aynak mines: The ancient Buddha statues sit in serene meditation in the caves carved into the russet cliffs of [...]
Togo’s Plans For Managing Google’s Equiano Cable?
Via Quartz Africa, an article on how Togo plans to make the most of managing Google’s Equiano cable: Last week, Togo became the first African country to land Equiano, Google’s subsea internet [...]

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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.