Tanzanian billionaire and member of the Board of Advisors to the McDonough School of Business Mohammed Dewji (MSB ’98) returned home safely Oct. 20 after armed robbers abducted and held him for nine ...

Kidnappers freed Africa’s youngest billionaire early Saturday morning after his abductors, believed to be South African mercenaries, held him for a week without collecting any ransom. Tanzanian ...

A one billion shillings — or $440,000 — ransom is being offered by the family of kidnapped Tanzanian businessman Mohammed Dewji. The 43-year-old is ranked as Africa’s youngest billionaire by Forbes ...

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Mohammed "Mo" Dewji — Africa's youngest billionaire — was grabbed from a gym at a luxury hotel in Tanzania on October 11, and has not been heard from one week on. Dewji, 43, is CEO of the vast African ...

Africa’s youngest billionaire was abducted outside a hotel gym in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on Thursday. Mohammed Dewji, who made is fortune turning his family’s wholesale enterprise into a continental ...

The family of Africa’s youngest billionaire who was kidnapped last week have offered a reward of one billion shillings ($440,000) for information leading to his rescue. Tanzanian tycoon Mohammed Dewji ...

Tanzanian billionaire Mohammed “Mo” Dewji has joined the Giving Pledge, promising to give away at least half of his wealth to philanthropic causes. “Having witnessed severe poverty throughout my ...

After studying business at Georgetown University, Mohammed ‘MO’ Dewji returned to Tanzania, took over his father’s commodities trading business and transformed it what he describes as a $1.3 billion ...

We grab a table and an (excellent) espresso. No one dis­agrees about the comfortable global dominance of East African arabica. So far, so normal. Dewji started life on the kitchen table: his mother ...

Gunmen have kidnapped an African billionaire from a luxury hotel in Dar es Salaam, the capital of Tanzania, police told CNN. Mohammed Dewji, 43, was taken by the men who waylaid him as he left the ...