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Airtel Africa plc (the "Company") - Notification of Major Interests in Shares TR-1: Standard form for notification of major holdings 1. Issuer Details ISIN GB00BKDRYJ47 Issuer Name AIRTEL AFRICA PLC UK or Non-UK Issuer UK 2. Reason for Notification An acquisition or disposal of voting rights 3. Details of person subject to the notification obligation Name Bharti Airtel Limited City of registered office (if applicable) Gurugram Country of registered office (if applicable) India 4. Details of the shareholder Name City of registered office Country of registered office Airtel Africa Mauritius Limited Mauritius Mauritius 5. Date on which the threshold was crossed or reached 06-Mar-2025 6. Date on which Issuer notified 06-Mar-2025 7. Total positions of person(s) subject to the notification obligation % of voting rights attached to shares (total of 8.A) % of voting rights through financial instruments (total of 8.B 1 + 8.B 2) Total of both in % (8.A + 8.B) Total number of voting rights held in issuer Resulting situation on the date on which threshold was crossed or reached 62.316583 0.000000 62.316583 2288691385 Position of previous notification (if applicable) 61.744999 0.000000 61.744999 8. Notified details of the resulting situation on the date on which the threshold was crossed or reached 8A. Voting rights attached to shares Class/Type of shares ISIN code(if possible) Number of direct voting rights (DTR5.1) Number of indirect voting rights (DTR5.2.1) % of direct voting rights (DTR5.1) % of indirect voting rights (DTR5.2.1) GB00BKDRYJ47 0 2288691385 0.000000 62.316583 Sub Total 8.A 2288691385 62.316583% 8B1. Financial Instruments according to (DTR5.3.1R.(1) (a)) Type of financial instrument Expiration date Exercise/conversion period Number of voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised/converted % of voting rights Sub Total 8.B1 8B2. Financial Instruments with similar economic effect according to (DTR5.3.1R.(1) (b)) Type of financial instrument Expiration date Exercise/conversion period Physical or cash settlement Number of voting rights % of voting rights Sub Total 8.B2 9. Information in relation to the person subject to the notification obligation 2. Full chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held starting with the ultimate controlling natural person or legal entities (please add additional rows as necessary) Ultimate controlling person Name of controlled undertaking % of voting rights if it equals or is higher than the notifiable threshold % of voting rights through financial instruments if it equals or is higher than the notifiable threshold Total of both if it equals or is higher than the notifiable threshold Bharti Enterprises (Holding) Private Limited Bharti Airtel Limited 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000% Bharti Enterprises (Holding) Private Limited Network i2i Limited 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000% Bharti Enterprises (Holding) Private Limited Airtel Africa Mauritius Limited 62.316583 0.000000 62.316583% 10. In case of proxy voting Name of the proxy holder The number and % of voting rights held The date until which the voting rights will be held 11. Additional Information Bharti Airtel Limited holds 100% voting rights in Network i2i Limited, which in turn holds 100% voting rights in Airtel Africa Mauritius Limited ('AAML'), a major shareholder of Airtel Africa plc. This disclosure under DTR 5 is being given pursuant to acquisition of additional 20,000,000 (i.e. 0.544561%) ordinary shares of $0.50 each of Airtel Africa plc ('AAplc') on March 06, 2025, consequent to which the shareholding of AAML in AAplc has been increased from 61.772023% to 62.316583%. We wish to submit that the minor difference in the pre-acquisition stake (i.e. 61.772023%) and stake report-ed in our previous TR-1 notification dt. February 24, 2025 (i.e. 61.744999%) is on account of consequential increase in stake due of purchase of its own shares by AAplc under share buy-back programme com-menced on December 23, 2024. The shareholding percentages in this notice are calculated on the basis of 3,672,684,320 ordinary shares of $0.50 each of AAplc as determined after adjusting the shares bought back by AAplc upto March 06, 2025. In this notification, figures are rounded to the nearest 6 decimal places. Any discrepancies in aggregated figures are due to rounding-off. 12. Date of Completion 10-Mar-2025 13. Place Of Completion New Delhi, India