Mali to Get $1.2 Billion From Miners After Talks
Via Bloomberg, a report on Mali’s mining sector: Cash-strapped junta brought miners to the negotiating table Miners had already paid 500 billion CFA francs by December Mali is set to get 750 [...]
Afghanistan Continues to Refine Its Extraction Strategy
Via The Diplomat, an article on how the Taliban are gradually increasing revenue streams from resource extraction operations in an effort to minimize the impact of Western pressure: As the Taliban [...]
US Doubles Down in Côte d’Ivoire as France Pulls Out
Courtesy of The Africa Report, a look at how the West African nation of Côte d’Ivoire is emerging as a regional hub for American investment as former colonial power France exits: Move over, [...]
China, Congo Draw up a Road Map for Xi Jinping’s US$50 Billion Africa Investment Pledge
Via South China Morning Post, a report on China’s planned US$50B Africa investment pledge: China and the Republic of Congo, also known as Congo-Brazzaville, have formulated “a timetable and [...]
What’s Behind Egypt and China’s ‘Golden Decade’ of Partnership
Via the Atlantic Council, a report on Egypt and China’s ‘golden decade’ of partnership: The beginning of 2025 marked the end of the “Year of the Egyptian-Chinese Partnership” and closed out [...]
Fighting for a Share of a $1 Trillion Market in Borneo’s Jungle
Via Bloomberg, a look at how a range of actors from global leaders to Wall Street are betting the struggle toward net-zero targets will reignite the troubled trade in carbon offsets: From a [...]

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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.