Safaricom Telecommunications Ethiopia Plc, previously known as Global Partnership for Ethiopia BV (GPE), is an SPV awarded a licence to operate telecom services in Ethiopia[2] at a license fee of US$850 million.[3] This fee made it the single largest foreign direct investment into Ethiopia.[3][4] The firm is expected to roll out telephony services from 2022.[5]

As of 25 May 2021, the shareholding of GPE was expected to be as follows:[6][5]


GPE proposed ownership
RankName of OwnerCountryPercentage Ownership
1SafaricomKenya55.70
2Sumitomo CorporationJapan27.20
3CDC GroupUK10.90
4VodacomSouth Africa6.20
Total100.00

Why Work For Us?

Safaricom Ethiopia is  offering a wide range of career opportunities as we set the groundwork in readiness for launch of our services next year. We seek to build a diverse and inclusive team reflective of the rich heritage of Ethiopia. We will empower our teams with digital leadership skills to support the digital transformation agenda and build teams with an individual and collective purpose to deliver advanced telecom services to all corners of the country. We excel in striving for innovation and offer digital skills training through the #1moreskill training programme for all employees.  

Employee Benefits

To keep employees engaged, motivated, and committed to Safaricom Ethiopia, we believe in offering equal opportunities for all.  We believe in Diversity, and Inclusion, Global mobility, Working in a best practice environment, Competitive compensation, and Meritocracy.  We strive to set our overall remuneration package to be among the leading companies in our peer comparators.

We also offer an environment conducive to encourage performance and structure our rewards to enable growth and development as well as differentiating people based on their individual contribution. We link total reward to business objectives in a fair and equitable way by establishing accountability and ownership of the reward process with line management