Real estate tycoon Talaat Moustafa signs agreement with AZADEA to launch Open Air Mall in Madinaty City
Formerly a suburb, Madinaty is an upscale, greener, less crowded area in Egypt.
African Billionaires
Mauritian tycoon Hector Espitalier-Noel loses $13.6 million as ENL shares retreat from 20-month high
The drop can be attributed to investor profit-taking actions.
Moroccan tycoon Karim Benjelloun gains $1.7 million as shares in Disway SA surge to all-time high
Disway SA is the first technology distributor in Morocco, Africa’s fifth-largest economy in terms of GDP.
Affluent Moroccan Berrada family earns $118 million from equity stake in Sothema
Alongside the multimillionaire Tazi family, the Berradas own a majority stake in the drug manufacturer.
Ivorian tycoon Jean Kacou Diagou buys four insurance firms from billionaire Patrice Motsepe
The deal is still subject to the validation of the supervisory authorities.
Nigerian-American telecom tycoon Sam Darwish moves to list IHS Towers on NYSE
IHS called off an initial plan to list on the U.S. exchange in 2018.
South African retail tycoon Christo Wiese to earn $15.1 million as Shoprite declares final dividend for 2021
Shoprite will pay shareholders a final dividend of $141.1 million from its profit for the 2021 financial year.
Egyptian tycoon Medhat Khalil loses $114.3 million as shares in Raya Holding decline by 40 percent
The multimillion-dollar loss in Khalil’s stake was due to a sustained sell-off on the Egyptian Stock Exchange.
LeapFrog Investments acquires 16.94-percent stake in Edward Effah’s Fidelity Bank Ghana
The company acquired the stake from Amethis and Edmond de Rothschild Equity Strategies.
Malawian tycoon Ramesh Savjani earns $3.4 million in 96 days as Malawi’s best performing stock surges
The multimillion-dollar profit from his stake can be attributed to a surge in the share price of Illovo Sugar Malawi.
Here are five super-rich Algerians worth knowing aside from Issad Rebrab who is worth $4.8 billion
Algeria is expected to be home to more than 6,000 millionaires by the end of the decade.
DPP tells Kenyan tycoon Samuel Macharia to privately prosecute directors over alleged fraud
The petition marks a fresh twist in the battle for ownership of the Kenyan insurance provider Directline Assurance.
Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote says Nigeria could save $700 million annually from sugar master plan
Dangote said: “If the national sugar master plan is followed … the country will be better for it.”
Gerrit Ferreira’s Rand Merchant Investment moves to unbundle stakes in major insurers
The move is aimed at enabling it to narrow a discount between its share price and the book value.
Nigerian cement tycoon Abdulsamad Rabiu signs power plant deal with Finland’s Wartsila Oyj Abp
Wartsila Oyj Abp is a Finnish company that manufactures and services power sources and other equipment.
Five African billionaires receive dividends over $39 million in 2021
African billionaires have had yet another opportunity to smile at their bank accounts this year.