MTN SA CEO resigns and linked with move to Middle East

MTN Group has announced that the chief executive of its South Africa operations, Ahmad Farroukh, has resigned.

MTN said his resignation is effective as of July 31, 2015.

Farroukh’s exit from MTN, which is Africa’s largest mobile network operator, also underlies how the telecommunications company is struggling to cement a CEO for its South African operations.

It was only in August 2014 that Farroukh replaced former MTN SA CEO Zunaid Bulbulia. At the time, MTN said the hiring of Farroukh as its South African unit’s CEO was in line with a management rotation policy at the company.

MTN veteran Farroukh joined MTN in 2006. He was also the former chief executive officer of MTN’s biggest African operation in Nigeria and headed up the company’s Ghana operations.