Burundi
Finance
Burundi plans to privatise state-owned telecoms company Onatel in 2011, reports regional weekly East African Business Week. After many false starts when trying to privatise the incumbent...
2011-02-14Finance
Trading of Trading of Orascom Telecom shares on the London Stock Exchange has been suspended pending an announcement form the Egypt-based company on the future of its African assets,...
2010-04-28Finance
Following Santander Brasil's double listing in New York and Sao Paulo (the US$8.1bn IPO is the largest global IPO so far this year), the Brazilian unit has attracted yet more interest....
2009-10-14Finance
To those who thought sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) would hibernate until the end of the global recession, Qatar Investment Authority (QIA)'s involvement in the VW-Porsche megamerger...
2009-07-28Finance
Kenya's Safaricom began the subscription process for its share sale on March 28. The much anticipated IPO was met with thousands subscribing on the first day. Interested parties have...
2008-04-07Finance
Turkey's first major privatisation of the year was completed in late February with British American Tobacco (BAT) winning the bid for cigarette firm Tekel Sigara. BAT was the sole...
2008-02-26
