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Interview: Pretty Mubaiwa, Director of Corporate Affairs, Africa Resource Centre

How is it you can find Coco-Cola in remote villages in Africa, but not much needed healthcare supplies? HBI catches up with Pretty Mubaiwa, South-Africa-based director of corporate affairs at supply-chain expert advisory group the Africa Resource Center (Arc), to find out more.

March 30, 2023

Morocco’s largest hospital group’s share price tanks after successful IPO

Africa-focused private equity firm Mediterrania Capital Partners has made a successful exit from Akdital, Morocco's largest for-profit hospital group, with the biggest IPO on the Casablanca Stock Exchange since 2008. But despite being heavily over-subscribed, the share price has since fallen by 9%.

January 6, 2023

Orange and AXA buy pan-African digital health player

Telecoms giant Orange and insurer AXA will become majority shareholders of the appointment booking and telehealth platform DabaDoc, which operates mostly in Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria. It has intentions to expand across Sub-Saharan Africa.

June 10, 2021

Akdital plans pre-IPO expansion

Morocco's largest hospital group Akdital Holding is expanding nationwide ahead of its plans to file for IPO. The group is going public to finance its international expansion.

May 13, 2021

Payor reforms loom in GCC as COVID/expat exodus bites

Payors are maturing and providers are suffering from the double whammy of COVID and a declining expat population, said panellists at HBI's State of the Regions webinar on Middle East & North Africa (MENA). Other topics including hedging risk, public sector reform and how global trends are manifesting in the region.

November 26, 2020

IFC and others fund greenfields in North Africa as markets “open up”

The IFC, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and other development banks are providing $125m in Islamic financing for two greenfield hospital developments in Egypt and Morocco by a Saudi hospital group.

March 4, 2020

Elsan buys third Moroccan hospital and talks strategy

French hospital group Elsan has acquired its third hospital in Morocco. Head of international development Emile Dinet talks HBI through its strategy in Africa's fifth-largest economy, which only recently allowed institutional investment into its health sector.

February 5, 2020

Moroccan pension fund agrees $500m hospital sale & leaseback deal with government

Morrocco's state pension fund CMR has acquired five public university hospital properties from the national government for nearly $500m in a sale & leaseback deal.

November 14, 2019

“Teaser released” for Diaverum sale, as it enters new market

HBI hears that a short "teaser" document has been put out in preparation for a sale of global dialysis provider Diaverum later this year. This has happened as it enters Morocco with the acquisition of a private dialysis centre in Marrakech.

July 17, 2019

Elsan looks for a digital partner ahead of French telemedicine boom in 2019

France’s second-largest hospital group Elsan is seeking a digital partnership ahead of a telemedicine boom in France, and the group also has “ambitious plans” in Africa, group CFO David Sylberg tells attendees at HBI 2018.

April 23, 2018

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