Transaction in Own Shares

Summary by AI BETAClose X

Airtel Africa plc has announced the purchase of 125,000 ordinary shares on March 23, 2026, as part of its ongoing share buy-back program. The shares were acquired from Barclays Capital Securities Limited at prices ranging from 340.00 GBp to 361.00 GBp, with a volume-weighted average price of 353.39 GBp. Following this transaction, the company's total issued ordinary shares, excluding treasury shares, stand at 3,644,347,239. This buy-back activity is consistent with the company's previously announced share repurchase program.

Disclaimer*

Airtel Africa PLC
24 March 2026
 

 

 

Airtel Africa plc

 

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

 

Transaction in Own Shares

 

London and Lagos, 24 March 2026: 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 March 2026

Aggregate number of ordinary shares purchased:

125,000

Lowest price paid per share (GBp):

340.00p

Highest price paid per share (GBp):

361.00p

Volume weighted average price paid (GBp):

353.39p

 

The purchased ordinary shares will be held in treasury by the Company.

 

Following the purchase of these ordinary shares, the remaining ordinary shares of USD 0.50 each in issue will be 3,654,881,028, including 10,533,789 treasury shares. Accordingly, the total number of voting rights in the Company is 3,644,347,239. 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

354.70

78,676

340.80

361.00

BATS Europe

352.29

9,674

341.60

360.20

CHI-X Europe

350.14

30,920

340.00

360.00

Aquis Exchange

355.74

2,559

354.80

356.80

Turquoise

354.05

3,171

342.00

359.60

 

Since the commencement of the first tranche of the $100m share buy-back programme announced on 23 December 2024, the Company has purchased  44,969,465 ordinary shares in aggregate, at a volume weighted average price of 169.4241 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

23/03/2026

08:18:44

1886

GBp

341.4000

CHIX

606185120011053000

23/03/2026

08:18:44

707

GBp

341.4000

CHIX

606185120011053000

23/03/2026

08:21:08

1308

GBp

342.0000

BATE

592111338985806000

23/03/2026

08:23:56

1141

GBp

341.4000

CHIX

592111338985888000

23/03/2026

08:28:10

1347

GBp

341.2000

CHIX

606185120011265000

23/03/2026

08:34:05

1290

GBp

343.0000

CHIX

606185120011407000

23/03/2026

08:39:03

1067

GBp

341.8000

XLON

592111338986233000

23/03/2026

08:39:03

264

GBp

341.8000

XLON

592111338986233000

23/03/2026

08:49:48

1329

GBp

343.8000

XLON

592111338986505000

23/03/2026

08:50:00

715

GBp

343.6000

BATE

592111338986508000

23/03/2026

08:50:00

707

GBp

343.6000

CHIX

606185120011775000

23/03/2026

08:55:05

1259

GBp

343.8000

XLON

592111338986586000

23/03/2026

09:02:04

904

GBp

342.0000

XLON

592111338986747000

23/03/2026

09:02:04

707

GBp

342.0000

BATE

606185120012000000

23/03/2026

09:10:47

709

GBp

342.2000

CHIX

592111338986938000

23/03/2026

09:12:35

715

GBp

341.6000

CHIX

592111338986975000

23/03/2026

09:12:35

707

GBp

341.6000

BATE

606185120012218000

23/03/2026

09:19:20

707

GBp

341.8000

CHIX

592111338987115000

23/03/2026

09:19:20

778

GBp

341.8000

XLON

606185120012354000

23/03/2026

09:32:45

509

GBp

342.0000

XLON

592111338987407000

23/03/2026

09:32:45

14

GBp

342.0000

BATE

592111338987407000

23/03/2026

09:32:45

8

GBp

342.0000

TRQX

606185120012633000

23/03/2026

09:32:45

33

GBp

342.0000

CHIX

606185120012633000

23/03/2026

09:32:45

143

GBp

342.0000

XLON

592111338987407000

23/03/2026

09:33:44

707

GBp

341.4000

XLON

592111338987431000

23/03/2026

09:33:44

935

GBp

341.4000

CHIX

606185120012657000

23/03/2026

09:42:48

754

GBp

342.0000

CHIX

592111338987627000

23/03/2026

09:42:48

707

GBp

342.0000

XLON

606185120012845000

23/03/2026

09:50:30

1286

GBp

342.2000

XLON

592111338987782000

23/03/2026

10:07:31

830

GBp

342.8000

XLON

592111338988192000

23/03/2026

10:07:31

767

GBp

342.8000

XLON

606185120013381000

23/03/2026

10:07:31

707

GBp

342.8000

CHIX

606185120013381000

23/03/2026

10:07:37

707

GBp

342.8000

TRQX

592111338988195000

23/03/2026

10:20:13

1455

GBp

343.4000

XLON

592111338988502000

23/03/2026

10:20:13

707

GBp

343.4000

CHIX

606185120013673000

23/03/2026

10:27:38

1395

GBp

342.2000

XLON

592111338988659000

23/03/2026

10:38:25

1255

GBp

341.4000

CHIX

592111338988881000

23/03/2026

10:49:09

1359

GBp

340.0000

CHIX

606185120014223000

23/03/2026

10:55:13

1257

GBp

340.8000

XLON

592111338989228000

23/03/2026

11:16:07

1357

GBp

357.4000

XLON

592111338989974000

23/03/2026

11:23:25

1067

GBp

353.2000

XLON

592111338990241000

23/03/2026

11:34:12

1414

GBp

356.2000

CHIX

606185120015634000

23/03/2026

11:41:18

1079

GBp

354.0000

XLON

606185120015822000

23/03/2026

11:51:23

1361

GBp

352.8000

XLON

592111338991030000

23/03/2026

11:59:35

1075

GBp

353.8000

XLON

592111338991233000

23/03/2026

12:05:43

1241

GBp

354.8000

XLON

606185120016445000

23/03/2026

12:13:50

1079

GBp

354.0000

XLON

592111338991682000

23/03/2026

12:30:40

735

GBp

356.0000

CHIX

592111338992195000

23/03/2026

12:30:40

1562

GBp

356.0000

XLON

592111338992195000

23/03/2026

12:41:54

1643

GBp

356.8000

XLON

592111338992644000

23/03/2026

12:53:19

984

GBp

359.6000

XLON

606185120018102000

23/03/2026

13:01:31

1194

GBp

359.0000

XLON

592111338993384000

23/03/2026

13:05:51

163

GBp

358.4000

XLON

592111338993524000

23/03/2026

13:05:51

808

GBp

358.4000

XLON

592111338993524000

23/03/2026

13:14:30

1046

GBp

358.6000

XLON

606185120018758000

23/03/2026

13:19:35

1017

GBp

358.0000

XLON

606185120018896000

23/03/2026

13:30:00

798

GBp

357.4000

XLON

592111338994217000

23/03/2026

13:31:48

773

GBp

357.2000

CHIX

606185120019257000

23/03/2026

13:31:48

235

GBp

357.2000

CHIX

606185120019257000

23/03/2026

13:31:48

80

GBp

357.2000

XLON

606185120019257000

23/03/2026

13:31:48

678

GBp

357.2000

XLON

606185120019257000

23/03/2026

13:35:29

762

GBp

356.8000

AQXE

592111338994421000

23/03/2026

13:37:52

936

GBp

357.6000

TRQX

592111338994502000

23/03/2026

13:37:52

784

GBp

357.6000

XLON

592111338994502000

23/03/2026

13:43:06

1408

GBp

359.2000

XLON

606185120019666000

23/03/2026

13:46:53

888

GBp

358.4000

XLON

606185120019777000

23/03/2026

13:50:58

915

GBp

357.6000

XLON

606185120019889000

23/03/2026

14:04:15

741

GBp

359.6000

CHIX

592111338995339000

23/03/2026

14:04:15

1414

GBp

359.6000

BATE

606185120020271000

23/03/2026

14:09:37

1279

GBp

359.0000

XLON

606185120020423000

23/03/2026

14:25:45

65

GBp

359.6000

TRQX

592111338995929000

23/03/2026

14:25:45

710

GBp

359.6000

TRQX

592111338995929000

23/03/2026

14:25:45

1262

GBp

359.4000

XLON

606185120020837000

23/03/2026

14:28:26

1214

GBp

359.0000

XLON

592111338996008000

23/03/2026

14:33:19

766

GBp

359.0000

XLON

592111338996137000

23/03/2026

14:34:21

865

GBp

358.6000

XLON

592111338996167000

23/03/2026

14:36:20

810

GBp

358.2000

XLON

606185120021114000

23/03/2026

14:39:15

955

GBp

357.8000

XLON

592111338996315000

23/03/2026

14:54:13

3471

GBp

360.0000

CHIX

592111338996765000

23/03/2026

14:54:13

711

GBp

360.0000

CHIX

606185120021642000

23/03/2026

14:54:13

302

GBp

360.0000

CHIX

606185120021642000

23/03/2026

14:56:24

38

GBp

359.6000

XLON

592111338996841000

23/03/2026

14:56:24

882

GBp

359.6000

XLON

592111338996841000

23/03/2026

14:58:19

904

GBp

359.4000

XLON

606185120021777000

23/03/2026

15:12:10

1329

GBp

361.0000

XLON

592111338997389000

23/03/2026

15:14:20

939

GBp

360.8000

XLON

592111338997468000

23/03/2026

15:16:06

950

GBp

360.8000

XLON

606185120022387000

23/03/2026

15:18:47

953

GBp

360.2000

XLON

606185120022492000

23/03/2026

15:21:01

971

GBp

360.2000

BATE

592111338997727000

23/03/2026

15:26:28

1024

GBp

360.4000

XLON

606185120022745000

23/03/2026

15:26:41

857

GBp

360.4000

XLON

606185120022752000

23/03/2026

15:28:08

960

GBp

359.8000

XLON

592111338997964000

23/03/2026

15:33:11

954

GBp

360.0000

XLON

592111338998119000

23/03/2026

15:34:27

1128

GBp

359.8000

XLON

592111338998156000

23/03/2026

15:37:48

947

GBp

359.0000

BATE

606185120023089000

23/03/2026

15:40:00

977

GBp

359.4000

XLON

592111338998336000

23/03/2026

15:42:52

806

GBp

359.8000

XLON

592111338998427000

23/03/2026

15:50:26

707

GBp

359.8000

XLON

606185120023472000

23/03/2026

15:50:26

1130

GBp

359.8000

CHIX

592111338998659000

23/03/2026

15:51:18

851

GBp

359.8000

CHIX

592111338998684000

23/03/2026

15:52:18

986

GBp

359.6000

CHIX

592111338998724000

23/03/2026

15:54:03

243

GBp

359.2000

XLON

606185120023606000

23/03/2026

15:54:03

86

GBp

359.2000

XLON

606185120023606000

23/03/2026

15:54:03

826

GBp

359.2000

XLON

606185120023606000

23/03/2026

15:56:20

974

GBp

357.6000

XLON

606185120023696000

23/03/2026

15:58:32

974

GBp

357.2000

XLON

606185120023776000

23/03/2026

15:59:40

955

GBp

356.6000

XLON

606185120023825000

23/03/2026

16:03:45

1461

GBp

356.6000

XLON

606185120023976000

23/03/2026

16:05:03

923

GBp

356.4000

XLON

592111338999219000

23/03/2026

16:06:07

964

GBp

356.4000

BATE

606185120024054000

23/03/2026

16:07:21

1272

GBp

356.6000

XLON

606185120024100000

23/03/2026

16:10:42

1195

GBp

356.6000

XLON

592111338999416000

23/03/2026

16:12:44

1267

GBp

357.2000

XLON

606185120024282000

23/03/2026

16:12:44

707

GBp

357.2000

XLON

592111338999492000

23/03/2026

16:12:44

814

GBp

357.2000

CHIX

606185120024282000

23/03/2026

16:13:22

949

GBp

357.0000

XLON

606185120024303000

23/03/2026

16:15:54

1186

GBp

356.6000

CHIX

592111338999613000

23/03/2026

16:15:54

1099

GBp

356.6000

XLON

606185120024400000

23/03/2026

16:17:45

921

GBp

356.4000

BATE

592111338999694000

23/03/2026

16:19:03

997

GBp

356.0000

XLON

592111338999752000

23/03/2026

16:19:16

221

GBp

355.8000

XLON

606185120024546000

23/03/2026

16:19:16

480

GBp

355.8000

XLON

606185120024546000

23/03/2026

16:19:16

239

GBp

355.8000

XLON

606185120024546000

23/03/2026

16:20:49

945

GBp

355.4000

XLON

592111338999843000

23/03/2026

16:20:57

1047

GBp

355.4000

XLON

606185120024631000

23/03/2026

16:21:55

953

GBp

355.0000

XLON

592111338999892000

23/03/2026

16:23:28

11

GBp

354.8000

BATE

592111338999968000

23/03/2026

16:23:28

995

GBp

354.8000

BATE

592111338999968000

23/03/2026

16:23:28

707

GBp

354.8000

AQXE

606185120024746000

23/03/2026

16:25:20

35

GBp

354.6000

TRQX

606185120024838000

23/03/2026

16:25:33

953

GBp

354.6000

CHIX

592111339000071000

23/03/2026

16:25:33

700

GBp

354.6000

TRQX

606185120024847000

23/03/2026

16:25:33

735

GBp

354.6000

XLON

606185120024847000

23/03/2026

16:26:56

846

GBp

355.0000

CHIX

606185120024904000

23/03/2026

16:26:56

1133

GBp

355.0000

XLON

606185120024904000

23/03/2026

16:28:38

10

GBp

355.4000

TRQX

592111339000196000

23/03/2026

16:28:39

805

GBp

355.4000

XLON

606185120024968000

23/03/2026

16:29:09

399

GBp

355.6000

AQXE

592111339000217000

23/03/2026

16:29:09

34

GBp

355.6000

AQXE

592111339000217000

23/03/2026

16:29:09

503

GBp

355.6000

AQXE

592111339000217000

23/03/2026

16:29:09

56

GBp

355.6000

AQXE

592111339000217000

23/03/2026

16:29:11

98

GBp

355.6000

AQXE

606185120024990000

23/03/2026

16:29:34

813

GBp

355.2000

CHIX

592111339000236000

23/03/2026

16:29:44

747

GBp

355.2000

XLON

606185120025016000

 

 

Enquiries

 

Airtel Africa - Investor Relations

Alastair Jones

Investor.relations@africa.airtel.com

 

+44 7464 830 011

+44 207 493 9315



 

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

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