Naguib Sawiris
Naguib Sawiris is the brother of Nassef Sawiris, the second richest person in Africa. He is worth $3.2 billion, according to Forbes. Naguib built his fortune in telecom, selling Orascom Telecom in 2011 to Russian telecom firm VimpelCom (now Veon) in a multibillion-dollar transaction.
The Egyptian is also chairman of Orascom TMT Investments, which has stakes in an asset manager in Egypt and Italian internet company Italiaonline, among others.
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He owns 88% of pan-European pay TV and video news network Euronews through his Media Globe Holdings. He also developed a luxury resort called Silversands on the Caribbean island of Grenada, according to Forbes.
