{"id":1016589,"date":"2026-06-24T08:25:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1016589"},"modified":"2026-06-24T08:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:57:11","slug":"bharti-airtel-raises-airtel-africa-stake-to-79-via-rs-28200-crore-share-swap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/24\/bharti-airtel-raises-airtel-africa-stake-to-79-via-rs-28200-crore-share-swap\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharti Airtel raises Airtel Africa stake to 79% via Rs 28,200-crore share swap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bharti Airtel has completed its acquisition of an additional 16.3% stake in Airtel Africa, taking its effective holding in the London-listed subsidiary to approximately 79%, the company said in a stock exchange filing. <\/p>\n<p>Bharti Airtel ups stake in Airtel Africa <\/p>\n<p>The deal was executed as a share swap with Indian Continent Investment (ICIL), a promoter group entity. Bharti Airtel acquired 595,204,251 shares of Airtel Africa, around 16.3% of the African unit, from ICIL on June 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bharti Airtel has completed its acquisition of an additional 16.3% stake in Airtel Africa, taking its effective holding in the London-listed subsidiary to approximately 79%, the company said in a stock exchange filing. Bharti Airtel ups stake in Airtel Africa The deal was executed as a share swap with Indian Continent Investment (ICIL), a promoter group entity. Bharti Airtel acquired 595,204,251 shares of Airtel Africa, around 16.3% of the African unit, from ICIL on June 22.<\/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-1016589","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\/1016589","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=1016589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016590,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016589\/revisions\/1016590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}