{"id":25447,"date":"2012-10-30T12:28:03","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T10:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=25447"},"modified":"2012-10-30T12:30:59","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T10:30:59","slug":"orascom-telecom-considers-sale-of-african-units","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/25447\/orascom-telecom-considers-sale-of-african-units\/","title":{"rendered":"Orascom Telecom considers sale of African units"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Orascom Telecom Holding said it was considering the sale of all or part of its interests in central and southern Africa as part of a review of operations in the region.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Tuesday (30 October), Orascom Telecom said it was conducting a review of its operations in Burundi, Zimbabwe and the Central African Republic &#8220;to identify, examine and consider a range of strategic alternatives&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those strategic options include, but are not limited to, a sale of all or a material part of the Sub-Saharan African operations either in one transaction or in a series of transactions,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>Russia&#8217;s Vimpelcom took control of the Egyptian company last year in a deal worth around $6 billion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related article<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Forbes lists Africa\u2019s power players\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/10779\/forbes-lists-africas-power-players\/\"><strong>Forbes lists Africa\u2019s power players<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Algeria to buy 51% stake in Vimpelcom unit\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/1363\/algeria-to-buy-51-stake-in-vimpelcom-unit\/\"><strong>Algeria to buy 51% stake in Vimpelcom unit<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orascom Telecom  said it was considering the sale of all or part of its interests in central and southern Africa as part of a review of operations in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[25,4491,247],"class_list":["post-25447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-active","tag-orascom-telecom","tag-vimpelcom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25447"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25451,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25447\/revisions\/25451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}