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Who is Othman Benjelloun
Othman Benjelloun is a Morrocan national born in 1931 in Casablanca, Morocco, Morocco. He is the president and CEO of Moroccan Bank for External Trade (BMCE Bank) which has a presence in more than 20 African countries making him one of Africa’s richest men.
A family man with two children, he is currently listed as the richest person in Morocco. Othman Benjelloun was born to a wealthy family that owned a huge Moroccan insurance company.
Today, that insurance company is called RMA Wataniya and is one of the largest financial institutions in North Africa.
He is also the head of FinanceCom which among other things is part of a project to develop a multibillion-dollar tech city in Tangiers that is expected to host 200 Chinese companies and truly deserved the title of, one of the wealthiest men in Africa.
The holding company FinanceCom has …
Who is Strive Masiyiwa
Mr Strive Masiyiwa was born in 1961 he is the best renown as the founder and director of the broadcast communications Econet Wireless and is one of Africa’s richest men.
He founded Econet in 1993 but not without sweat and blood, the Zimbabwean government was not having it. The government went against Mr Masiyiwa in a landmark legal battle for almost five years.
While today Econet is the largest telecommunications company in Zimbabwe with operations in Kenya and Burundi too, the company did not go to market until 1998.
That was not the only war Mr Masiyiwa, who is one of the wealthiest Africans,
had to fight with the government, as the publisher of Zimbabwe’s only independent newspaper, the Daily News, he was confronted with the government and well, you win some you lose some and in 2003, Daily News was shut down by the government.…