Safaricom PLC has announced a temporary shutdown of the mobile money service, M-Pesa, for scheduled system maintenance. According to a notice issued on Saturday, April 5, the maintenance will take ...

Safaricom has partnered with the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) to launch Ziidi Trader, a new feature within the M-PESA app that allows customers to buy and sell shares directly from their mobile ...

Kenyan telco Safaricom has launched its commercial high-speed 5G Internet services, becoming the first operator in the country to do so. Safaricom has even become the first in the East African region ...

NAIROBI, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Kenya's biggest telecoms operator Safaricom SCOM.NR has started a digital postal service that will use mobile phone numbers like the traditional post office box addresses, ...

Sitoyo Lopokoiyit, Managing Director of M-PESA Africa, will leave Safaricom on 31 March 2026 to take up a new role outside the Vodacom Group, the company has announced.Lopokoiyit has led M-PESA Africa ...

Safaricom is set to launch satellite Internet services at a time when Elon Musk’s Starlink is also preparing to go live with a similar offering in Kenya. Satellite Internet connections have the ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Safaricom House. (Photo: Jenipher Wachie, Standard) NAIROBI, KENYA: A number of Safaricom ...

Safaricom services are back to operations after a hitch characterising better part of Saturday evening through to Sunday morning. In a statement, East Africa’s leading telecommunication company said ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Shares of Kenyan telecoms operator Safaricom surged more than 9% on Friday after it secured a mobile financial services licence in Ethiopia, market participants said. Ethiopia's ...

Amazon Web Services has entered a partnership with Safaricom — Kenya’s largest telco, ISP and mobile payment provider — in a collaboration that could spell competition between American cloud providers ...