{"id":1014726,"date":"2026-06-16T08:28:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T02:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1014726"},"modified":"2026-06-16T08:49:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T03:19:51","slug":"shareholders-approve-airtel-raising-stake-in-africa-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/16\/shareholders-approve-airtel-raising-stake-in-africa-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"Shareholders approve Airtel raising stake in Africa unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bharti Airtel has secured shareholder approval for a share-swap transaction that will increase its effective stake in Airtel Africa to about 79%, deepening its exposure in its fastest-growing overseas market while simplifying the group\u2019s ownership structure. <\/p>\n<p>The transaction involves Airtel issuing equity shares to promoter-group entity Indian Continent Investment (ICIL) in exchange for its 16.31% stake in Airtel Africa. The deal, which remains subject to regulatory approvals, allows Airtel to raise its ownership in the African business without any cash outflow or additional debt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bharti Airtel has secured shareholder approval for a share-swap transaction that will increase its effective stake in Airtel Africa to about 79%, deepening its exposure in its fastest-growing overseas market while simplifying the group\u2019s ownership structure. The transaction involves Airtel issuing equity shares to promoter-group entity Indian Continent Investment (ICIL) in exchange for its 16.31% stake in Airtel Africa. The deal, which remains subject to regulatory approvals, allows Airtel to raise its ownership in the African business without any cash outflow or additional debt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014747,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014726\/revisions\/1014747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}