If you had typed “Al Mansour Holdings” in youy Google browser two months ago, the search engine would probably have responded with a “no results found for this search”.
This is internetese for “Al Mansour who?” However, when this invisible company pledged a jaw-dropping US$ 82 billion investment across Africa, including a US$12 billion pledge to Botswana, there was not a single raised eyebrow, only excitement across corridors of power and screaming headlines in major news outlets.
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