{"id":1014802,"date":"2026-06-16T09:17:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T03:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1014802"},"modified":"2026-06-16T09:45:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T04:15:30","slug":"bharti-airtel-gets-shareholders-nod-to-raise-stake-in-airtel-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/16\/bharti-airtel-gets-shareholders-nod-to-raise-stake-in-airtel-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharti Airtel gets shareholders\u2019 nod to raise stake in Airtel Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bharti Airtel on Monday said it has received approval from around 100 per cent of its shareholders to raise its stake in Airtel Africa by 16.31 per cent through a share-swap agreement worth Rs 28,220 crore. Following the transaction, Bharti Airtel\u2019s stake in Airtel Africa will rise to around 79 per cent from the current 62.73 per cent. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNearly 100 per cent of its (Bharti Airtel) shareholders have approved the ongoing transaction to consolidate its stake in key strategic subsidiary Airtel Africa plc,\u201d the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bharti Airtel on Monday said it has received approval from around 100 per cent of its shareholders to raise its stake in Airtel Africa by 16.31 per cent through a share-swap agreement worth Rs 28,220 crore. Following the transaction, Bharti Airtel\u2019s stake in Airtel Africa will rise to around 79 per cent from the current 62.73 per cent. \u201cNearly 100 per cent of its (Bharti Airtel) shareholders have approved the ongoing transaction to consolidate its stake in key strategic subsidiary Airtel Africa plc,\u201d the company said in a statement.<\/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":[4,80,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014802","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=1014802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014809,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014802\/revisions\/1014809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}