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Mo Ibrahim
Entrepreneurs🇸🇩1946–Alive

Mo Ibrahim

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$1.1Bnet worth

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Mo Ibrahim Sudanese-British billionaire telecommunications entrepreneur, founder of Celtel International, which brought mobile phone service to millions across Africa. Known for the Mo Ibrahim Foundation and its annual prize for exceptional African leadership.

Overview

Sir Mohammed Fathi Ahmed Ibrahim is a Sudanese-British billionaire businessman. He worked for several telecommunications companies, before founding Celtel, which, when sold, had over 24 million mobile phone subscribers in 14 African countries. After selling Celtel in 2005 for $3.4 billion, he set up the Mo Ibrahim Foundation to encourage better governance in Africa, as well as creating the Ibrahim Index of African Governance, to evaluate nations' performance. He is also a member of the Africa regional advisory board of London Business School.

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This profile section is complemented from Wikipedia for Mo Ibrahim. Sudanese-British billionaire businessman (born 1946)

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Primary source page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo_Ibrahim

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1940s
1946

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Birth of Mo Ibrahim.

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2020s
2026

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2026

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