Kenya's Safaricom elects Adil Khawaja as chairman - Reuters.com

NAIROBI, Jan 26 (Reuters) - The committee of Kenya's biggest telecoms relation Safaricom (SCOM.NR) has elected Adil Khawaja arsenic its chairman, the institution said connected Thursday.

Khawaja, who is simply a lawyer, replaces John Ngumi, who resigned from the committee of the institution that is partially owned by South Africa's Vodacom (VODJ.J) and Britain's Vodafone (VOD.L), successful December.

He has antecedently served connected boards of different Kenyan firms, Safaricom said successful a connection signed by CEO Peter Ndegwa. These included Kenya Power (KPLC.NR) and lender KCB (KCB.NR).

Among the projects helium volition assistance shepherd astatine Safaricom, which is the astir profitable institution successful East Africa, is the scaling up of operations successful neighbouring Ethiopia, aft the motorboat of its web determination past year.

Reporting by Duncan Miriri; Editing by Kirsten Donovan and Sharon Singleton

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