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Safaricom takes 56pc stake in Ethiopia firm Business Daily Safaricom #ticker:SCOM has raised its controlling stake in Global Partnership for Ethiopia, the consortium that has made a bid for one of two telecoms licences in Kenya’s northern neighbour, to 56 percent from the 51 percent announced previously. Details of the consortium’s latest ownership structure was disclosed Tuesday by South Africa-based Vodacom Group which owns a 34.9 percent stake in the Nairobi Securities Exchange-listed firm. “The consortium is 56 percent owned by Safaricom, six percent by Vodacom, 25 ...

Safaricom’s bid to operate M-Pesa in Addis boosted by mobile money services launch Wednesday May 19 2021 Safaricom Plc headquarters in Kenya's capital Nairobi. The telco is eyeing the Ethiopian Market. PHOTO | FILE | NMG Advertisement Safaricom is still hopeful that it will launch mobile money services in Ethiopia as it awaits the decision on the acquisition of a licence to operate in the country. The telco’s bid for control of the Ethiopian telecommunication market seems to have received a boost ahead of the official acquisition of the licence with the news that the Addis administration ...

Africa’s new free trade zone needs digitisation as top growth engine Thursday May 20 2021 Summary The AfCFTA is a game-changer agreement for the countries who are signatories. Africa accounts for just two percent of global trade. And only 17 percent of African exports are intra-continental, compared with 59 percent in Asia and 68 percent in Europe. The pact is designed to create the largest free trade area in the world measured by the number of countries participating. With all the challenges that the Covid-19 pandemic has presented to Africa, there are many exciting changes afoot, and few ...

Entrepreneurship stories are inspiring in their own way. To me, these stories are even more inspiring when you realize that these entrepreneurs, started with nothing. It’s not uncommon to hear about entrepreneurs who used the wealth they made from a previous endeavour to build a thriving new start-up, or about seasoned business owners who took over a decades-old franchise and transformed it into something new. The Jasiri series aims to talk about who started their journey with no capital, no funding, and sometimes no education or experience, yet despite the odds, they were still able to bu...

Liquid Intelligent Technologies gets face lift Breaking News Liquid Telecom unveiled its new brand image as Liquid Intelligent Technologies (LIT) that aims at being a full one-stop–shop technology group that provides tailor made digital solutions to businesses in the public and private sectors across Africa. Under its new brand identity, Liquid Intelligent Technologies is a pan-African technology group with capabilities across 14 countries, primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa has eight business units, namely: Liquid Networks, Liquid Business, Liquid Sea, Liquid Cloud, Liquid Cyber Security, Liq...