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MTN Uganda Shareholders Approve Mobile Money Separation from Main Telco Business While today’s resolution marks a formal milestone, the road to approval was far from smooth. In the weeks leading up to the extraordinary general meeting, a group of MTN Uganda shareholders warned that, the telco had not disclosed sufficient detail about the transaction, raising concerns over its impact on shareholder rights and asset security.

The MTN Uganda Board and Shareholders sat today for the Extraordinary General Meeting to approve the spin-off of the Mobile Money Unit from the main telco business.

MTN Uganda’s shareholders have given the green light to a major corporate restructuring that will formally separate the company’s high-performing mobile money business, MTN MoMo, from its core telecom operations. The move, ratified at a hybrid extraordinary general meeting held today, marks a turning point in Uganda’s financial services and telecom landscape and signals a broader shift toward unlocking value from fast-growing fintech assets. The decision authorizes the implementation of the “Proposed Transaction,” which involves the legal and operational separation of MTN Mobile Money Uganda Limited (MTN MoMo) from MTN Uganda Limited. The new standalone entity will be owned by…

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Paul Murungi is a Ugandan Business Journalist with extensive financial journalism training from institutions in South Africa, London (UK), Ghana, Tanzania, and Uganda. His coverage focuses on groundbreaking stories across the East African region with a focus on ICT, Energy, Oil and Gas, Mining, Companies, Capital and Financial markets, and the General Economy.

His body of work has contributed to policy change in private and public companies.

Paul has so far won five continental awards at the Sanlam Group Awards for Excellence in Financial Journalism in Johannesburg, South Africa, and several Uganda national journalism awards for his articles on business and technology at the ACME Awards.

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