REG - Airtel Africa PLC - Transaction in Own Shares

Airtel AfricaAnnouncement

24/10/2025 07:00

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RNS Number : 6508E  Airtel Africa PLC  24 October 2025

 

 

Airtel Africa plc

 

('Airtel Africa', or the 'Company')

 

Transaction in Own Shares

 

London and Lagos, 24 October 2025: Airtel Africa announces today it has
purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of USD 0.50 each from
Barclays Capital Securities Limited pursuant to the authority granted by its
shareholders as part of its share buy-back programme, details of which were
announced on 22 September 2025.

Aggregate information:

 Date of purchase                                23 October 2025
 Aggregate number of ordinary shares purchased:  22,094
 Lowest price paid per share (GBp):              225.60p
 Highest price paid per share (GBp):             229.00p
 Volume weighted average price paid (GBp):       227.42p

 

The purchased ordinary shares will be cancelled.

 

Following the purchase of these ordinary shares, the remaining ordinary shares
of USD 0.50 each in issue will be 3,656,025,539, including 7,489,044 treasury
shares. Accordingly, the total number of voting rights in the Company is
3,648,536,495. This figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for
the calculations by which they will determine whether they are required to
notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under
the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

 

The purchases were made pursuant to the revised arrangements entered into with
Barclays Capital Securities Limited announced on 22 September 2025.

Aggregate information on shares purchased according to trading venues:

 

 Venue                  Volume-weighted average price  Aggregated volume  Lowest price per share  Highest price per share
 London Stock Exchange  227.03                         10,547             225.60                  229.00
 BATS Europe            228.16                         4,993              226.80                  229.00
 CHI-X Europe           226.72                         4,322              225.80                  227.20
 Turquoise              229.00                         2,232              229.00                  229.00

 

Since the commencement of the first tranche of the $100m share buy-back
programme announced on 23 December 2024, the Company has purchased 40,780,209
ordinary shares in aggregate, at a volume weighted average price of 151.6130
GBp per ordinary share.

 

The table below contains detailed information of the individual trades made by
Barclays Capital Securities Limited as part of the buy-back programme.

 

Individual transactions:

 

 Transaction Date  Time      Volume  Currency  Price     Trading Venue  Transaction Reference
 23/10/2025        08:02:45  281     GBp       227.4000  XLON           606260838666825000
 23/10/2025        08:06:30  1070    GBp       227.6000  XLON           592187089831331000
 23/10/2025        08:26:32  238     GBp       225.8000  XLON           606260838667188000
 23/10/2025        08:26:32  475     GBp       225.8000  XLON           606260838667188000
 23/10/2025        08:26:32  448     GBp       225.8000  XLON           606260838667188000
 23/10/2025        09:02:04  496     GBp       227.6000  XLON           606260838667719000
 23/10/2025        09:02:04  623     GBp       227.6000  XLON           606260838667719000
 23/10/2025        09:17:05  1090    GBp       226.8000  BATE           592187089832427000
 23/10/2025        10:11:05  1212    GBp       225.8000  CHIX           592187089833291000
 23/10/2025        11:01:59  1282    GBp       225.6000  XLON           592187089834119000
 23/10/2025        12:03:55  1945    GBp       227.0000  CHIX           606260838670330000
 23/10/2025        12:26:55  1171    GBp       227.0000  XLON           606260838670639000
 23/10/2025        12:55:19  423     GBp       226.2000  XLON           606260838671045000
 23/10/2025        12:56:59  338     GBp       226.2000  XLON           606260838671070000
 23/10/2025        12:56:59  354     GBp       226.2000  XLON           606260838671070000
 23/10/2025        13:24:10  1170    GBp       226.2000  XLON           592187089836282000
 23/10/2025        14:06:38  1165    GBp       227.2000  CHIX           606260838672241000
 23/10/2025        14:17:00  1136    GBp       227.4000  BATE           606260838672421000
 23/10/2025        14:42:07  1089    GBp       228.6000  XLON           592187089837944000
 23/10/2025        15:10:15  1668    GBp       229.0000  BATE           592187089838939000
 23/10/2025        15:16:03  893     GBp       229.0000  BATE           606260838674146000
 23/10/2025        15:16:03  206     GBp       229.0000  BATE           606260838674146000
 23/10/2025        15:38:45  3       GBp       229.0000  TRQX           606260838674768000
 23/10/2025        15:38:45  1838    GBp       229.0000  TRQX           592187089839755000
 23/10/2025        15:38:45  391     GBp       229.0000  TRQX           592187089839755000
 23/10/2025        15:43:38  1089    GBp       229.0000  XLON           606260838674889000

 

 

Enquiries

 

 Airtel Africa - Investor Relations

 Alastair Jones                                  +44 7464 830 011

 Investor.relations@africa.airtel.com            +44 207 493 9315
 (mailto:Investor.relations@africa.airtel.com)

 

 Airtel Africa - Group Company Secretary

 Simon O'Hara                             +44 207 493 9315

 

About Airtel Africa

Airtel Africa is a leading provider of telecommunications and mobile money
services, with operations in 14 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Airtel Africa
provides an integrated offer to its subscribers, including mobile voice and
data services as well as mobile money services both nationally and
internationally. The company's strategy is focused on providing a great
customer experience across the entire footprint, enabling our corporate
purpose of transforming lives across Africa.

 

www.airtel.africa (http://www.airtel.africa)

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