{"id":14799,"date":"2017-11-12T01:05:40","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T00:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/11\/12\/revealed-how-vodafone-allowed-elites-to-reap-profits-of-africas-mobile-boom\/"},"modified":"2017-11-12T01:05:40","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T00:05:40","slug":"revealed-how-vodafone-allowed-elites-to-reap-profits-of-africas-mobile-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=14799","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: how Vodafone allowed elites to reap profits of Africa\u2019s mobile boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Investigation for the Observer shows how deals done by the UK telecoms giant benefited politically connected elites in eastern AfricaThe spread of mobile phones across Africa has been one of the continent\u2019s success stories over the past two decades, transforming lives through better communication and simpler banking. It has also resulted in huge profits for powerful international companies \u2013 and for some of Africa\u2019s wealthiest and best-connected individuals.But an investigation for the Observer into the African interests of UK mobile phone giant Vodafone, by the Finance Uncovered network, has raised serious questions about transparency and the processes by which western firms entered Africa\u2019s telecoms markets. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/nov\/12\/vodafone-wealthy-elites-mobile-phones-africa\" target=\"_blank\">Revealed: how Vodafone allowed elites to reap profits of Africa\u2019s mobile boom<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investigation for the Observer shows how deals done by the UK telecoms giant benefited politically connected elites in eastern AfricaThe spread of mobile phones across Africa has been one of the continent\u2019s success stories over the past two decades, transforming lives through better communication and simpler banking. It has also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}