IHS pays $2bn to buy MTN telecoms towers

IHS, the African mobile infrastructure group, will double the size of its business following a $2bn deal to acquire more than 9,000 telecoms towers from MTN, the South African-based telecoms group. The deal with IHS, which is raising equity from investors to help fund the transaction, will be the largest transaction for towers in Africa.

Issam Darwish, IHS chief executive, declined to comment on the value of the deal but added that it would double the size of the group’s asset value. He said Nigeria was of particular importance in the regional telecoms industry.

“Nigeria is at the heart of the continent and one of the fastest growing markets,” he said. “Operators want to improve the performance of their networks [through such deals].”

One person familiar with the situation said the deal would be valued at close to $2bn. The terms were kept confidential in the disclosure by the groups on Thursday.

IHS acquired MTN’s towers in Rwanda and Zambia this year, and bought 2,000 towers from Etisalat in Nigeria last month. Mr Darwish said the group would consider further deals in future to maintain its growth. IHS has raised funds from investors such as Goldman Sachs and the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation in the past year.

Rivals are also raising money to participate in forthcoming auctions of tower infrastructure. Helios Towers Africa, which is backed by funds of George Soros, Madeleine Albright, the former US secretary of state, and Jacob Rothschild, recently acquired 3,100 telecoms towers in four countries in Africa from Bharti Airtel in a deal valued at about $500m. Helios will become much smaller than IHS, however, following the deal with MTN.

These are the guys running our Shadow Government FRiends. Obama isn’t the problem, the the guys running this farce, who placed the Manchurian candidate the we have to worry about.

http://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/economics/item/18468-rothschild-crony-capitalist-summit-plots-against-free-markets

Under the guise of re-defining and improving what they inaccurately called “capitalism,” top insiders representing institutions that control some $30 trillion in assets met at a Rothschild-sponsored “Inclusive Capitalism” summit in London to push what sounded suspiciously like global tyranny. From the IMF boss quoting Karl Marx to crony capitalist CEOs and central bankers pushing radical notions of “sustainability,” the globalist bigwigs consistently blamed what little remains of the free market for the horrific failures of socialism, central banking, and Big Government. Ironically, many of the attendees enriched by fleecing taxpayers via government were tripping over themselves to advocate more wealth redistribution and taxes.

The conference, held in late May, was convened by Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, who married into the infamous, unimaginably wealthy Rothschild banking dynasty that extracted much of its obscene fortune from humanity using the coercive power of government. Attendees and speakers included Prince Charles, International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Christine Lagarde (shown), former U.S. President Bill Clinton, Bank of England boss Mark Carney, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, and more. Also in attendance: pension-fund bosses, Big Business CEOs, and other top figures representing an estimated one third of the world’s investable wealth. Among the “supporting organizations” for the summit were the CIA-linked Ford Foundation and the globalist Rockefeller Foundation.

The Opium Wars never ended. The real cartel leaders aren’t the “Kingpins” that go to jail. They are Bankers and World Leaders. Even those leaders who feign opposition to drugs. Major trafficking simply does NOT happen withou government complicity.

Today Africa, is what India was in terms of drug distribution, and the West is being attacked by the parasitic banksters who benefit from the $Trillion drug trade profits made from the misery of others.

2000 -George Soros Established OSIWA in Africa

George Soros: The Open Society Initiative for West Africa is active in 10 countries in the region (Benin, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, and Sierra Leone) and focuses on law, justice and human rights, and economic and political governance. The initiative pursues the development of open societies by supporting and building partnerships with local and regional groups that promote inclusive democratic governance, transparency and accountability, and active citizenship.
http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/about/offices-foundations/open-society-initiative-west-africa

Drug shipments off of Africa have “significantly increased since 2009”
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/kt-article-display-1.asp?xfile=data/international/2014/June/international_June26.xml&section=international

2011-The emerging narco nexus between West Africa and Brazil.
Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea, Guinea- Bissau, Nigeria, and South Africa are now top transshipment points for Latin American drugs bound for Europe and beyond. This development seems to have overtaken the close connection with Russia, which in the 1990s was the main link for Colombian cocaine.1 Much of the traffic has gone by sea, but law enforcement authorities note an increasing use of air shipments. Between 30 and 100 tons of Latin American cocaine annually are smuggled north to Europe along African air routes.
http://www.americasquarterly.org/brune

2012- Leader ousted and Ginea is turned into a drug trafficking haven
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/02/world/africa/guinea-bissau-after-coup-is-drug-trafficking-haven.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

2013-Drug traffic fuels addiction in Sierra Leone
As the global narcotics trade expands in West Africa, it leaves a trail of addicts in its wake.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/01/2013121105523716213.html

2013-Liberia calls for tougher drug laws.
http://www.irinnews.org/report/96987/liberia-call-for-tougher-drug-laws

2013-Liberian presidential motorcade chief arrested in drug-smuggling case.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/11/liberian-presidential-motorcade-chief-arrested-drug-smuggling

2014-Surge in cocaine trade undermines Conde’s bid to revive Guinea
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/31/us-guinea-drugs-insight-idUSBREA0U0EG20140131

2014-Drugs More Available in West Africa than Ever
http://www.economist.com/blogs/baobab/2014/06/drug-trafficking-west-africa

West Africa needs to wake up to threat from drugs trade
West Africa has become a major drugs route but a new approach can stop it being scarred by the carnage elsewhere
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2014/jun/26/west-africa-illegal-drugs-new-approach

2013-LatAm Drug Traffickers Set Up in Guinea-Bissau, Expand in Africa
Military chief Antonio Indjai is wanted for drug trafficking.
A recent study has shed light on the links between Latin American organized crime and West Africa, showing how drug trafficking has corrupted the state of Guinea-Bissau and is now spreading through the region.
http://www.insightcrime.org/news-analysis/latam-drug-traffickers-set-up-in-guinea-bissau-expand-in-africa

2013-West African leader linked to $400m cocaine smuggling ring
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/west-african-leader-linked-to-400m-cocaine-smuggling-ring-8566575.html

2014-South African Banks Fined After Money-Laundering Probe
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-16/south-african-banks-fined-after-money-laundering-probe.html

The biggest fine went to Standard Bank Group Ltd (SBK). Standard Bank Group Limited is the holding company for a group of companies offering financial services. The Group provides services in personal, corporate, merchant and commercial banking, including insurance broking, mutual fund management, property fund management, as well as other services. Standard Bank is also the holding company of Liberty Life Group Limited.

Agreed, our shadow government is comprised of sociopaths, with God like complexes. Rockefeller funded Margaret Sanger/Planned Parenthood.

‘’I encourage the Chinese to support Pol Pot,’’ said Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carter’s national security adviser at the time.

http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/17/world/death-of-pol-pot-the-diplomacy-pol-pot-s-end-won-t-stop-us-pursuit-of-his-circle.html

Zbigniew (Zbig) comes from Polish family considered “nobility”, didn’t become a citizen until 1958, has ties to all recent US presidents, but was appointed NSA advisor under President Carter, he also has direct ties to the Bilderbergs, George Soros, et al. http://www.muckety.com/Query?SearchResult=4166&SearchResult=2005&graph=MucketyMap?_r=2D

Brzezinski was a Columbia professor where Obama “studied”. Obama nominated Zbig’s son Mark ambassador to Sweden in 2011. Zbig’s daughter Mika, works for MSNBC, and was quoted this week as saying that “Obama was too smart for his job”.

Brzezinki also cofounded the Trilateral commission with David Rockefeller serving as Director from ‘73 to ‘76. That is when Brzezinski selected Georgia governor Jimmy Carter as a member.

I n 1976 Carter announced his candidacy for president. That year Carter made Brzezinski US national security advisor. As Carter’s advisor, he paved the way for normalizing relations with China, the US friendly shah of Iran was overthrown which resulted in the US hostage crisis, the energy crisis, and war in Afghanistan.

In 1981 President Carter presented Brzezinski with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

“John Kerry is a terrific choice.”
- Zbigniew Brzezinski on Dec 23, 2012

Iin a 2009 speech to his fellow elitists, Zbigniew Brzezinski said, “It Is Infinitely Easier to Kill a Million People than it is to Control Them”. He is on video and can’t deny what he said, as he has done with his other statements.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jkCEOSgLRt4&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DjkCEOSgLRt4

Brzezinski was an “advisor” for Obama’s campaign, and is clearly functioning as Foreign Policy advisor for Obama, although he doesn’t seem to be on the books.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/12/obama-adviser-leads-deleg_n_86186.html

http://www.nysun.com/foreign/obama-adviser-leads-delegation-to-damascus/71123/

Rockefeller’s connection to Margaret Sanger, and the Planned Parenthood abortion industry
Letter from Lawrence B. Dunham to Raymond B. Fosdick, 1931 February 06
http://rockefeller100.org/items/show/2562

JP Morgan and Rockefelker Joined forces forming JP Morgan Chase in 2000. JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an American multinational banking and financial services holding company. It is the largest bank in the United States, with total assets of US$2.515 trillion.

Rockefeller and Rothschild Joined Forces in 2012.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/lauriebennett/2012/05/30/the-rockefellers-and-the-rothschilds-make-a-deal/

http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/Perspectives_1/article_8918.shtml/

‘The extent of the Rothschild-Rockefeller relationship has been shrouded in ignorance, mystery, obfuscation and confusion displaying both the intellectual cowardice of esteemed academic researchers and biographers and the imbalanced ideology of those who conclude conspiracy without a presentation of actual facts and proper interpretations.’
http://www.thelibertybeacon.com/2014/04/04/david-rockefellers-global-elite-dreams-to-remake-society/

“IT IS AMAZING THAT FOREIGN INFLUENCE CAN BE BROUGHT TO BEAR ON SUCH HIGH AMERICAN OFFICIAL CIRCLES. IT IS UNFORTUNATE THAT THE SCHEMES OF ONE GOVERNMENT COULD BE PERMITTED TO BLOCK A CONFERENCE OF ALL NATIONS ON SO VITAL A SUBJECT.”-—Nevada Senator Key Pittman, New York Times, June 9, 1931,

This is why Latin American nations accuse Americans of wanting to kill their babies.
http://www.mundoactual-info.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/rockefeller-portada.jpg

Rockefellers Own Words on Population control
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ClqUcScwnn8

The Story of Opium
http://opioids.com/narcotic-drugs/chapter-2.html

The Opium Wars are what made the Rothschilds ridiculously wealthy. “But in 1834, the old Emperor Tao-kwang, himself a reclaimed opium-smoker, determined if possible to save his country. He first of all took the sense of the people through his high officials, Shall we legalize and tax the trade, or shall we annihilate it?”

http://anglicanhistory.org/asia/china/moule_opium1881.html

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