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Digital-first. Mobile-friendly. Accessible. And XBRL-ready.

As sustainability reporting regulations shift to digital, Airtel Africa’s 2025 sustainability report unlocks the potential of more accessible and engaging online reporting – while also delivering the PDF from the same content.

Reportl enabled Airtel Africa’s sustainability reporting process to move to best-practice ‘native HTML’, and prepare for integrated tagging with XBRL taxonomies (GRI, ESRS and ISSB).

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Sustainability reporting that’s accessible for all

Working with the design team at Friend Studio, Airtel Africa created its 2025 sustainability reporting suite using Reportl.

This digital-first process delivered a fully interactive PDF, alongside the best-practice, mobile-friendly, online report. This is more accessible and ready for tagging with evolving sustainability taxonomies.

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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 navigable, 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 are moving to a mobile-friendly web format for reporting, with the goal of improving accessibility and usability.

Sustainability reporting offers many opportunities to embrace digital innovation, and prepare for tagging with the GRI, ESRS and ISSB taxonomies. To meet this need requires a digital-first solution.

The solution

Airtel Africa used Reportl to deliver a fully digital-first reporting process (native HTML). This enabled them to publish the online report and PDF at the same time from a single source of content.

Produced alongside the annual report, this sustainability report boasts digital-only features including video, animated storytelling, easy-to-use navigation and search.

This approach also delivers enhanced accessibility compared with a traditional PDF process. It meets stakeholders’ needs, while also adhering to regulators’ guidance to move from print-first to a digital-led process.

The benefits

Airtel Africa's stakeholders can now access the report online in the format they prefer – whatever their device, wherever they are.

Using Reportl's unique digital-first design process, this sustainability report is Google and AI-friendly and more accessible across browsers and mobile devices.

The digital process also delivers AI-enabled language translation, making complex content easier to understand for the widest range of Airtel Africa’s stakeholders.

Reportl offers many process automations and efficiencies, including auto page cross-referencing, single-source proofing, integrated tagging and data import functions.

And finally, because this is digital-first, it is ready for the XBRL tagging requirements planned for the coming years.

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