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New research links rural solar adoption to mobile money use, while raising concerns about inequality
AFRICA

Solar powers Malawi’s mobile money boom but leaves the poorest behind

New research links rural solar adoption to mobile money use, while raising concerns about inequality

  • Collins Mtika
5 min read
Pay up: M-Pesa has transformed Kenya’s economy. But Telebirr has been bringing Ethiopia’s capital to a halt. Photo: Eric Lafforgue/ArtInAllOfUs/Corbis/Getty Images
ADDIS ABABA

Mobile money: Ethiopia struggles to pay the price of progress

Why must motorists wait hours to refuel if there is plenty of petrol? For the answer, follow the money

  • Samuel Getachew
3 min read
The pandemic is providing mobile phone network operators with a unique chance to partner with fintech firms and banks to deliver clever e-commerce solutions to the informal sector in Africa
AFRICA

Digital financial services could fast-track UN SDGs

COMMENT The world is going through unprecedented challenges caused by a novel, rapidly transmitted coronavirus. Experts predict difficult times ahead with shrinking economies,…

  • Osahon Akpata
5 min read
Vodacom has realised that distribution is a key factor for making the mobile money service work in South Africa.
ARTHUR GOLDSTRUCK

Vodacom re-launches M-Pesa (again)

Following a disastrous South African launch in 2010, Vodacom has redesigned and relaunched M-Pesa, the mobile money service that transformed Kenya.

  • Arthur Goldstruck
5 min read