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COMESA clears Vodacom Safaricom 55% stake East Africa telecoms 2026

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COMESA Clears Vodacom’s Safaricom Stake: What 55% Ownership Means for East Africa’s Telecoms Map

UphivaBETAR
April 12, 2026

COMESA’s unconditional clearance of Vodacom’s Safaricom stake increase — raising ownership to 55% — marks the first time a South African telco holds majority control of East Africa’s dominant operator. BETAR analyses the strategic, regulatory, and market implications.

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COMESA clears Vodacom Safaricom stake increase — 55% ownership and what it means for East Africa telecoms 2026

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COMESA Clears Vodacom’s Safaricom Stake Increase: What a 55% Ownership Means for East Africa’s Telecoms Map

UphivaBETAR
April 3, 2026

COMESA cleared Vodacom’s acquisition of an additional 20% in Safaricom — no conditions attached. Vodacom now holds 55%, making it the first South African telco with majority control of East Africa’s dominant mobile operator.

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COMESA Clears Vodacom Safaricom Stake Increase: What 55% Ownership Means for East Africa

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April 3, 2026

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Ethiopia's Telecom Revenue Levy Will Fund Rural Connectivity. Here's the Math. — BETAR.africa

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Ethiopia’s Telecom Revenue Levy Will Fund Rural Connectivity. Here’s the Math.

UphivaBETAR
March 22, 2026

Ethiopia has enacted a telecom revenue levy to fund rural connectivity. How the fund is structured, how much it raises, and who pays.

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Ethiopia telecom revenue levy rural connectivity fund 2026 — BETAR.africa

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Ethiopia’s Telecom Revenue Levy: A 5% Tax That Could Fund Rural Connectivity — or Kill Competition

UphivaBETAR
March 20, 2026

Ethiopia has introduced a 5% levy on telecom revenues to fund rural connectivity. It’s a significant policy step — but the economics of taxing a market with only two operators are complicated.

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Safaricom stake sale Vodacom Kenya capital markets analysis

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Kenya Sells the Crown Jewel: What the Safaricom-Vodacom Deal Tells Us About Africa’s Fiscal Reckoning

UphivaBETAR
March 20, 2026

Kenya has approved the sale of a 15% Safaricom stake to Vodacom for KES 204 billion ($1.5B). The real story: a debt-distressed government has monetised Africa’s most valuable fintech asset through a bilateral deal — not the capital markets Safaricom has been democratising.

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Ethiopia 1.5% telecom revenue levy rural connectivity fund 2026

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Ethiopia Mandates 1.5% Telecom Levy to Fund Rural Connectivity

UphivaBETAR
March 14, 2026

Ethiopia’s 2026 Finance Law introduces a 1.5% levy on telecom operator revenues to fund a rural connectivity subsidy fund. What Safaricom and Ethio Telecom must pay and how the fund works.

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How M-Pesa Captured at Least 40% of Kenya’s Stock Exchange in Weeks

UphivaBETAR
March 12, 2026

Safaricom launched Ziidi Trader, connecting M-Pesa directly to the Nairobi Securities Exchange. Within weeks, M-Pesa payments captured at least 40% of NSE transaction volume — a structural shift in Kenya’s capital markets.

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Ethiopia telecom revenue levy 1.5 percent ECA rural digital connectivity fund 2026

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Ethiopia’s 1.5% Telecom Revenue Levy: How the Rural Connectivity Fund Works

UphivaBETAR
March 11, 2026

Ethiopia’s Council of Ministers approved a 1.5% annual levy on gross telecom revenue on March 10, 2026, creating a dedicated fund for rural digital connectivity. The levy will be administered…

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COMESA Clears Vodacom’s Safaricom Stake: What 55% Ownership Means for East Africa’s Telecoms Map

COMESA Clears Vodacom’s Safaricom Stake Increase: What a 55% Ownership Means for East Africa’s Telecoms Map

COMESA Clears Vodacom Safaricom Stake Increase: What 55% Ownership Means for East Africa

Ethiopia’s Telecom Revenue Levy Will Fund Rural Connectivity. Here’s the Math.

Ethiopia’s Telecom Revenue Levy: A 5% Tax That Could Fund Rural Connectivity — or Kill Competition

Kenya Sells the Crown Jewel: What the Safaricom-Vodacom Deal Tells Us About Africa’s Fiscal Reckoning

Ethiopia Mandates 1.5% Telecom Levy to Fund Rural Connectivity

How M-Pesa Captured at Least 40% of Kenya’s Stock Exchange in Weeks

Ethiopia’s 1.5% Telecom Revenue Levy: How the Rural Connectivity Fund Works

COMESA Clears Vodacom’s Safaricom Stake: What 55% Ownership Means for East Africa’s Telecoms Map

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COMESA Clears Vodacom’s Safaricom Stake: What 55% Ownership Means for East Africa’s Telecoms Map

Airtel-Starlink Direct-to-Cell in Kenya: The End of the Coverage Excuse

Nigeria BRIDGE Fibre Rollout: How the World Bank’s Pay-for-Results Architecture Is Funding Africa’s Biggest Broadband Project

Nigeria BRIDGE Fibre Rollout: How the World Bank’s Pay-for-Results Architecture Is Funding Africa’s Biggest Broadband Project