DRC: Apple Using ‘Conflict Minerals’
December 22nd, 2024 Via the BBC, a report on the DRC’s accusation that Apple is using conflict minerals in its products: The Democratic Republic of Congo has filed criminal complaints in France and Belgium against [...]
Macau Is the Casino Capital of the World. For China, That’s Not Enough.
December 22nd, 2024 Courtesy of the New York Times, a look at how – a quarter century after the former Portuguese colony was made a Chinese territory – Macau’s economic boundaries with the mainland are [...]
West Africa Bloc Offers Junta-Led States Six Months To Rethink Exit
December 22nd, 2024 Via Reuters, a report on ECOWAS’s efforts to persuade Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger to stay within the bloc: Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger will have a six-month grace period after their [...]
Power Sharing: The $1B ‘Electricity Highway’ Between Ethiopia and Kenya
December 19th, 2024 Via CNN, a report on the $1 billion ‘electricity highway’ comprising 650 miles of transmission lines that allow electricity to flow between Ethiopia and Kenya: Ethiopia and Kenya both embrace [...]
Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria To Build Super Coastal Highway
December 16th, 2024 Via North Africa Post, a report on plans to build a super coastal highway in Africa: Côte d’Ivoire and Nigeria have revived talks for a regional highway that will link the two countries, boosting [...]
Trump, Not Turkey, Likely to Decide Somaliland’s Fate
December 16th, 2024 Via Middle East – Told Slant substack, interesting analysis of Somaliland in light of the recent Turkish-brokered agreement between Somalia and Ethiopia: Somaliland Seen Critical to Containing [...]

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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.