{"id":1036065,"date":"2026-09-17T07:36:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T02:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1036065"},"modified":"2026-09-17T07:44:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T02:14:43","slug":"vodacom-to-appeal-kenya-court-ruling-against-safaricom-stake-purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/17\/vodacom-to-appeal-kenya-court-ruling-against-safaricom-stake-purchase\/","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom to appeal Kenya court ruling against Safaricom stake purchase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI: South African telecoms group Vodacom plans to appeal a Kenyan court ruling that ordered the cancellation of the deal it completed earlier this year to buy an additional 15% stake in Kenya&#8217;s Safaricom from the Kenyan government. <\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Kenya&#8217;s High Court said the Kenyan government&#8217;s sale of the Safaricom stake did not adequately involve the public and that the process was marked by concealment of material information, Kenyan television station NTV Kenya reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI: South African telecoms group Vodacom plans to appeal a Kenyan court ruling that ordered the cancellation of the deal it completed earlier this year to buy an additional 15% stake in Kenya&#8217;s Safaricom from the Kenyan government. On Tuesday, Kenya&#8217;s High Court said the Kenyan government&#8217;s sale of the Safaricom stake did not adequately involve the public and that the process was marked by concealment of material information, Kenyan television station NTV Kenya reported.<\/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-1036065","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\/1036065","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=1036065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036079,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036065\/revisions\/1036079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}