MTN would make record, lists on Rwanda Inventory Exchange

MTN Rwanda has listed its shares on the Rwanda Stock Exchange (RSE), as it built background by staying the first cell network operator to listing its shares on the RSE.

With this growth, Crystal Telecom Limited’s shareholders now keep a direct 20% stake in MTN Rwanda and can trade their MTN Rwanda shares right on the RSE. These shares have been earlier held by Crystal Telecom PLC.

This was disclosed by the business in a statement issued and found by Nairametrics.

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What MTN is expressing

CEO, MTN Rwanda, Mitwa Ng’ambi explained, “We are honoured to be the to start with telecommunications community supplier in Rwanda to be shown on the RSE. We are committed to further more creating our existence, increasing our connectivity, driving electronic inclusion and contributing to the sector and financial system.

“We are grateful to our shoppers, associates and stakeholders and glimpse ahead to this new chapter. Listing on the RSE is a important milestone for us and the system for even improved and bolder things to arrive.”

MTN Team President, Ralph Mupita reported, “This listing will help in deepening the Rwandan capital marketplaces by broadening community possession above time and will also establish the basis for a new and rising telecoms and technological know-how asset course on the exchange.”

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What you should really know

MTN Group had achieved with President Kagame of Rwanda and other federal government officers ahead of the listing.

Mupita, who led the workforce to the President, discussed that Rwanda retains a special spot in the MTN Group background as the very first current market it expanded into from South Africa in 1998.

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Mupita, who was accompanied by MTN VP for SEA location, Yolanda Cubs and CEO of MTN Rwanda, Mitwa Ng’ambi, also mentioned the purpose that digital infrastructure and expert services can engage in in diving the Rwanda Vision 2050, and guaranteeing each and every Rwandan can take pleasure in the advantages of a present day connected daily life.

In advance of its listing by introduction on the RSE, MTN Rwanda adjusted its position from a personal organization to a General public Liability Enterprise (Plc) effective December 2020. The entire corporation identify has for that reason been improved from MTN Rwandacell Minimal to MTN Rwandacell Plc.