213:– 2024), started to import wheat, flour, salt and cigarettes into Burundi from Tanzania. By 1974 cigarettes were becoming his main import. In 1978 he decided to use his profits to manufacture cigarettes in Burundi rather than importing them. In the 1980s the Burundi Tobacco Company (BTC) started to clear large areas of forest in
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PTG became the largest tobacco company in Africa. By 2013 the PTG was trading in 27 African and Middle
Eastern countries, with annual revenues in excess of $ 250 million. The company was manufacturing cigarettes in nine African countries and had more than 20,000 employees. As of 2013 the PTG
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subsidiaries included Leaf
Tobacco & Commodities in Uganda, Vision Tobacco in Dubai, Barco Trading in Angola, Burundi Tobacco Company in Burundi, Leaf Tobacco & Commodities in Nigeria, the Congo Tobacco Company, Mastermind Tobacco Company in Tanzania and Arkan Leaf in Angola.
237:. He was charged with aiding the previous government, and his businesses were nationalized. He escaped from prison in 1990 and fled to South Africa. Later the government of Burundi restored his property, intact. Ayabatwa bought large areas of land in the northwestern
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Rwandan police seized eight heavy trucks owned by the PTC's subsidiary of the eastern DRC, the Congo Tobacco Company. They claimed that the trucks were being used for "terror activities" organized by former general
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January 2013 Ayabatwa relinquished operational control of the Pan African Tobacco Group to his son, Paul Nkwaya Ayabatwa. He remained chairman of Pan African Tobacco. Ayabatwa died on 16 April 2024 in
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