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Africell, a fast-growing mobile network operator in Africa has closed a major commercial loan facility of $105 million for expansion in Africa. This financing is a syndicate from a leading group [...]

BT (BT.A.L) intends to exercise a call option to repurchase a 30% stake in BT Communications Services South Africa from South Africa-based private equity firm African Equity Empowerment [...]

Orange and AXA SA have reached an agreement to acquire a majority stake in Moroccan health-tech company DabaDoc. The French telecommunications company said Monday that Orange Middle East and [...]

GABORONE – Botswana’s Public Officers Pension Fund (BPOF), with 83 billion pula ($7.85 billion) in assets under management, has appointed South African advisory firm NMG Benefits to [...]

Tech-giant Google has launched a series of programmes that aim to support the growth and recovery of SMEs in Africa. The new initiative titled International Small Business Month will roll out [...]

The Corporate news circle is rife with a story that Metallon Corporation Limited, a South African company has renewed her tantrums to take over the assets of Lekoil Nigeria Limited. This is in [...]

Airtel Africa sells Airtel Tanzania’s tower portfolio to a joint venture owned by a subsidiary of SBA Communications Corporation as majority owner and by Paradigm Infrastructure Limited, [...]

Shoprite Holdings has sold its Nigerian business to local buyer Ketron Investment, it said on Wednesday, nearly 16 years after the South African retailer opened its first outlet in the country. [...]

PRIVATE equity fund manager Eos Capital (Pty) Ltd has entered an agreement to buy a solar and refrigeration company for an undisclosed amount. The company to be acquired is Utility Energy [...]