Forbes, for the second time, has named the world’s 500 Best Employers, based on its annual Forbes Global 2000 ranking of the world’s 2000 largest publicly traded companies copied to the Ghana News Agency.

Kenyan's Safaricom, placed in the 67th position, followed by South African Naspers in the 224th position.First Rand and Sanlam placed 432nd and 457th, respectively, as the showing of Africa's best employers according to the Magazine.

It said an African presence admittedly modest (4 companies out of 500) but still up from the first ranking of 2017, where Remgro, a South African-based investment company, was the only African company on the list.

The recognition of Safaricom by Forbes devotes a little more than the flattering image already enjoyed by the telecom operator since it comes just two months after the magazine Fortune, is ranked 19th on its list “Change the World “, which ranks companies according to their societal impact.

Highlighting the decisive role of the company in the mobile banking revolution, it recalled that “the M-pesa service, launched by Safaricom in 2007, now serves more than 30 million customers in 10 countries, mainly in remote areas away from the banks “.

According to Safaricom’s latest annual report, the company had 6,130 employees at the end of March 2018, with an average age of 27 years. Of these, half were women.The second edition is unsurprisingly dominated by the icons of American capitalism namely, Alphabet, Apple, Microsoft and Amazon amongst others.