Moroccan real estate magnate Alami Lazraq gains more than $6.1 million in 20 days
Lazraq owns 51.7 percent of the Moroccan home builder, Alliances Developpement Immobiliere.
African Billionaires
Africa’s second-richest man Johann Rupert gains $400 million as investors react to Richemont’s sales
The Swiss luxury goods firm reported revenues of $6.42 billion in the three months between October and December 2021.
Capitec CFO Andre Du Plessis’ shareholding in bank now worth $120.4 million
Du Plessis, a co-founder and the outgoing CFO of the South African bank, has a beneficial 0.008-percent ownership in the company.
Moroccan startup Chari, led by Sophia Alj and Ismael Belkhaya, gets $100-million valuation in bridge round
Chari is a fintech startup digitizing the heavily fragmented FMCG sector in French-speaking Africa.
Zak Calisto’s Karooooo posts $24.9 million as profit in 9M 2022, 3.9-percent lower than last year’s figures
Karooooo is a major international provider of smart transportation management and analytics.
Nigerian billionaire Abdul Samad Rabiu loses $69 million from stake in BUA Foods
Rabiu owns 99.8 percent of the newly established food business segment.
Zimbabwean businessman Zinona Koudounaris loses over $3.8 million in single day from stake in Axia Corp
Koudounaris holds a governance role in Axia and controls a 20.86-percent stake in the Zimbabwe-based firm.
Tracey Turner’s 10-year-old startup, Copia, secures $50 million to drive pan-African expansion
Copia is a B2C e-commerce platform serving middle- and low-income African consumers.
James Mwangi’s Equity Bank secures $49.3 million in funding for onward lending to small businesses
The funds will be deployed to render support through microcredit loans to small and medium-type businesses in Kenya.
Moroccan Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch’s stake in Afriquia Gaz now worth over $600 million
Afriquia Gaz SA is a Morocco-based group engaged in refining and marketing liquefied petroleum gas.
South African-born billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong launches Africa’s first COVID-19 vaccine plant
NantSA has launched a plant in South Africa that will produce up to 1 billion COVID-19 vaccines yearly by 2025.
Billionaire Johann Rupert’s Richemont reports double-digit surge in Q3 sales above $6.4 billion
The revenue posted in the third quarter of Richemont’s current financial period represents a 32-percent increase.
South African businessman Shameel Joosub: Vodacom acquisition in Egypt will drive transition from telco to tech-co
Joosub holds a beneficial 0.1-percent stake valued at $13.5 million in Vodacom.
Moroccan tycoon Adil Douiri gains $1.05 million in 44 days from stake in consumer goods group, Mutandis
Douiri is the founder of Mutandis, a leader in the packaged foods industry in Morocco.
Nassef Sawiris’ Orascom Construction adds new projects worth $785 million in Q4 2021
Orascom Construction is a leading global engineering and construction contractor founded by the late Egyptian industrialist Onsi Sawiris.
Led by Uganda-based Kaivan Sattar, Asaak raises $30 million to deepen operations in Africa
Mzabi, who started ARTES with his brothers Mzoughi and Sadok, holds a substantial 24.8-percent stake in the company.