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Xcelerator · Person

Benoni Urey

Wulki Farms & Lonestar Cell MTN

Mixed Agriculture, Telecommunications, Real Estate

Signal

Region
Liberia
Industry
Mixed Agriculture, Telecommunications, Real Estate
Source file
profiles/liberia_business_people.md:58
Status
published

Economic impact

Holds a majority stake in Lonestar Cell MTN, one of Liberia's two principal mobile telecommunications operators; as of 2023, the company served approximately 1.8 million subscribers across Liberia, per MTN Group annual reports (Liberia segment, in which MTN Group holds a 70 percent equity position). Also operates Wulki Farms, an integrated poultry, livestock, and feed production enterprise in Margibi County that constitutes one of the larger privately owned commercial farming operations in the country. Previously served as Commissioner-General of the Liberia Maritime Authority (then the Bureau of Maritime Affairs) during the 1990s, during which the bureau administered what was then the world's largest open ship registry by registered tonnage.

Sources

  1. Wikipedia
  2. Grokipedia
  3. Wulkifarms
Last updated: 5/27/2026 by xecon desk corrections@xecon.dev