Cabling Africa: The Great Data Race To Serve The ‘last billion’
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an interesting article on efforts to upgrade the continent’s digital infrastructure: Johannesburg was built on a gold rush. But in the Isando Campus business park [...]
China Consolidates Its Commercial Foothold in Djibouti
Via The Diplomat, a report on how China’s presence in Africa’s smallest country is far more extensive than just a military base: Djibouti, located at the far end of the Horn of Africa, is [...]
Sudan Wants To ‘Turn the Desert Green’ In Agricultural Modernization Push
Via The Financial Times, an article on Sudan’s plan to ‘turn the desert green’ in agricultural modernization push: It has the feel of the fertile Argentine pampas: fresh green pastures, [...]
Timor-Leste Pipe Dreams: After Compulsory Conciliation, What Comes Next?
Via Future Directions International, an article on how, aAlthough the Australia and Timor-Leste Maritime Boundary Agreement has been ratified, the development of the Greater Sunrise hydrocarbon field [...]
BRI: What’s Holding Up The Trains From Pakistan To Turkey Via Iran?
Via the South China Morning Post, commentary on how – while Iran Pakistan, and Turkey have announced that the rail project will be revived this year – it must still overcome [...]
Iran Can Solve Turkmenistan’s Natural Gas Dilemma
Via Bourse & Bazaar, an interesting look at how Iran’s strategy to become the natural gas hub of the region depends on developing several gas corridors with its neighbors, and gas-rich [...]

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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.