{"id":1016508,"date":"2026-06-24T07:40:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1016508"},"modified":"2026-06-24T07:43:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:13:26","slug":"bharti-airtel-raises-stake-in-airtel-africa-to-79-in-transaction-worth-%e2%82%b928000-crore-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/24\/bharti-airtel-raises-stake-in-airtel-africa-to-79-in-transaction-worth-%e2%82%b928000-crore-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharti Airtel raises stake in Airtel Africa to 79% in transaction worth \u20b928,000 crore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Bharti Airtel has raised its stake in Airtel Africa by 16.31% to about 79% through a share-swap agreement, which is estimated to be around \u20b928,200 crore, according to a company filing on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Before the transaction, Bharti Airtel held 62.73% in Airtel Africa. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The company completed the acquisition of 595,204,251 shares (around 16.3% stake) of Airtel Africa, from ICIL on June 22, 2026. Consequently, the company&#8217;s effective stake in Airtel Africa has increased to around 79%,&#8221; Bharti Airtel said in the filing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Bharti Airtel has raised its stake in Airtel Africa by 16.31% to about 79% through a share-swap agreement, which is estimated to be around \u20b928,200 crore, according to a company filing on Tuesday. Before the transaction, Bharti Airtel held 62.73% in Airtel Africa. &#8220;The company completed the acquisition of 595,204,251 shares (around 16.3% stake) of Airtel Africa, from ICIL on June 22, 2026. Consequently, the company&#8217;s effective stake in Airtel Africa has increased to around 79%,&#8221; Bharti Airtel said in the filing.<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016508","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=1016508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016509,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016508\/revisions\/1016509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}