Prime

Safaricom extends Bob Collymore’s contract by a year

Safaricom Bob Collymore. The company has extended his contract by one year. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP

By  PAUL WAFULA

Kenya telecommunications giant Safaricom has extended chief executive Bob Collymore’s contract by a year to compensate for the time he was away on medical leave.

The CEO will now leave the telco in 2020.

Be the First to Know

Get the stories shaping East Africa — delivered straight to your inbox

Conflict

  1. PRIME A regional war: Ethiopia troop pullout plan puts Somalia security under new strain

  2. Explainer: Why new war in Ethiopia’s Tigray threatens to trigger wider conflict

  3. Ethiopia, Sudan junta bicker again over RSF support claims

  4. PRIME East Africa’s oil rivalry is missing the bigger energy security question

Latest

  1. PRIME War in the Horn: America's dilemma

  2. PRIME Abiy starts new term, pushes Red Sea access plan

  3. Somali shilling notes

    PRIME Why IMF urges caution on launch of Somalia’s new money

  4. PRIME Ebola case in Kenya puts East African region on alert

In the headlines

View All