Aliko Dangote said on Thursday he was aiming to list his US$11bn cement company on the London stock exchange by the third quarter of 2013.
"If the market is good by next year, we will hit the market, sometime. Maybe third quarter ... we will try," Reuters reported him as saying on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Addis Ababa.
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