{"id":1014810,"date":"2026-06-16T09:34:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T04:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1014810"},"modified":"2026-06-16T09:59:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T04:29:27","slug":"bharti-airtel-shareholders-back-africa-stake-consolidation-plan-with-near-unanimous-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/16\/bharti-airtel-shareholders-back-africa-stake-consolidation-plan-with-near-unanimous-approval\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharti Airtel shareholders back Africa stake consolidation plan with near-unanimous approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], June 15 (ANI): Bharti Airtel said nearly all of its shareholders have approved the telecom major&#8217;s proposed transaction to consolidate its stake in Airtel Africa plc, a move the company said would strengthen its position in one of its key growth markets and enhance long-term shareholder value. <\/p>\n<p>The approval pertains to Bharti Airtel&#8217;s plan to issue equity shares on a preferential basis to Indian Continent Investment Limited (ICIL), a promoter group entity, in exchange for ICIL&#8217;s 16.31 per cent stake in Airtel Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], June 15 (ANI): Bharti Airtel said nearly all of its shareholders have approved the telecom major&#8217;s proposed transaction to consolidate its stake in Airtel Africa plc, a move the company said would strengthen its position in one of its key growth markets and enhance long-term shareholder value. The approval pertains to Bharti Airtel&#8217;s plan to issue equity shares on a preferential basis to Indian Continent Investment Limited (ICIL), a promoter group entity, in exchange for ICIL&#8217;s 16.31 per cent stake in Airtel Africa.<\/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":[4,92,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-tribune","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014810","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=1014810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014827,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014810\/revisions\/1014827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}