Mobile Money

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

5 JUN 2023

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

27 MAY 2020

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

4 AUG 2014

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