Transforming reporting

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Transforming ESEF: for every stakeholder, everywhere

Airtel Africa’s 2025 annual reporting suite marks a milestone in reporting – meeting the complex digital format requirements, while also transforming the online ESEF experience for all stakeholders.

This approach embraces the latest regulatory guidance – to move from a print-first process to digital-first.

Using Reportl delivered more accessible, mobile-friendly, fully-compliant reporting – efficiently and cost effectively. It aso delivered the PDF and print report at the same time.

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Making ESEF digital reporting accessible for all

Working with the design team at Friend Studio, Airtel Africa delivered its full 2025 annual reporting suite using Reportl.

This digital-first approach delivers best-practice, mobile-friendly, ESEF-compliant reporting that is more accessible for all, alongside the printed report and the interactive PDF.

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The story

The context

Airtel Africa is a leading operator of mobile services in 14 sub-Saharan countries, and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 in London.

With low levels of digital and financial inclusion, Airtel Africa’s opportunity to transform lives through its business and network growth is substantial.

Digitisation is at the heart of Airtel Africa’s strategy – as their brief stated: "We aim to enhance our reporting, reflecting our focus on digitisation and simplification. A digital-first approach will make our reporting more readable and better-suited to smartphone users.”

The challenge

With diverse audiences across many regions and markets, Airtel Africa’s reporting caters for varied needs, including many ways stakeholders access information.

Today, with over 95% of stakeholders now using mobile to access content, PDF reports alone aren’t meeting their needs. In addition, reporting regulations have moved to a web format with the goal of improving accessibility and usability.

Print software limits the opportunities for digitisation. To meet this need, Airtel Africa's design team at Friend Studio needed a digital reporting solution.

The solution

Airtel Africa used Reportl to deliver a fully digital-first reporting process (native HTML). All required formats were created from a single source of content, enabling publication of the entire suite at the same time – online report, interactive PDF, print and ESEF.

Airtel Africa’s 2025 annual reporting marks a milestone in digitally-compliant reporting. It is the FTSE 100’s first digital-first iXBRL report to be fully filed and published. This approach meets stakeholders’ needs, while also adhering to regulators’ guidance – to shift the process from print-first to digital-first.

Airtel Africa also completed an independent ESEF assurance process with the 2025 package delivered from Reportl.

The benefits

Airtel Africa stakeholders can now access the reports in any format they prefer – whatever their device, wherever they are.

The report includes digital-only features including video, animated story telling, easy-to-use navigation and search. This approach also delivers enhanced accessibility compared with a print-first PDF.

By producing the report using the native digital process, it is Google and AI-friendly and more accessible across all browsers and mobile devices. The digital process also delivers AI-enabled language translation, making complex content easier to access and understand for the widest range of Airtel Africa’s stakeholders.

Finally, the digital-led process brings many automations and efficiencies, including auto page cross-referencing, single-source proofing, integrated tagging and data import functions.

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