Ziad Dalloul – Africell’s CEO, President and Founder – has met the Vice President of the United States, JD Vance, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
Africell is the only American-owned mobile network operator in Africa and has collaborated on the continent with U.S. government arms and agencies including the White House, the State Department, the U.S. Trade and Development Agency, and ExIm.
Africell is also positioned as the digital connectivity partner to the Lobito Corridor. Investment in the Lobito Corridor, which encompasses Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia, is a bipartisan American priority, promising better access to Africa’s critical minerals alongside development benefits to the countries it passes through.
Africell is celebrating its twenty-fifth year of operations in 2025. It’s footprint covers Angola, DRC, The Gambia and Sierra Leone. The brand has almost twenty million customers and thousands of employees, directed from the company’s corporate headquarters in London. In 2024, Africell its debut public corporate bond, placing it in an elite group of African companies to have tapped into global capital markets.
Ziad Dalloul said: “Africell’s American ownership is a powerful point of difference for us. We are a vocal champion of U.S. interests and values in Africa. At the same time, we are a living and breathing example of an American company that has invested successfully and for a long time in a region that is often – unjustifiably – overlooked by other international businesses. We enjoy working closely with our American government partners to try to attract more U.S. investment into Africa: an outcome that is beneficial both to the United States and the African continent.”