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.
African Billionaires
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.
African billionaire heirs are making their mark in philanthropy
The progeny of some of Africas’s wealthiest people are putting in more of their time to giving and impacting.
Tunisian tycoon Moncef Mzabi gains over $1.4 million from stake in automobile retailer
Mzabi, who started ARTES with his brothers Mzoughi and Sadok, holds a substantial 24.8-percent stake in the company.
Cameroonian multimillionaire banker Alain Nkontchou’s stake in Ecobank now worth $3.76 million
Nkontchou controls a beneficial 0.98-percent stake in the bank.