Mudiwa GavazaThe head of Vodacom’s business in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been picked to head the group’s new business in Ethiopia.
In 2020, Ethiopia started a bidding process for two new licences to compete with Ethio Telecom, the state-owned and only network operator with about 45-million subscribers. Mobile network operators including MTN and Vodacom have been eyeing an entry into Ethiopia to beef up their operations on the continent, given the number of customers that the country could add to their bases.
Soussa, a Greek national, is now the MD of Vodacom DRC and chair of mobile payments platform, M-Pesa, a position he has held since 2017. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the American College of Greece and a master’s degree in marketing from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.