Safaricom reports outage on M-Pesa

Safaricom expects M-Pesa services to resume normally after a power outage on a Vodafone server in Germany. Photo/FILE

Safaricom has reported a complete outage on its M-Pesa money transfer service.

This follows a power outage on a Vodafone server in Germany on Saturday night that damaged server discs.

Bob Collymore, the firm's CEO said, "Our technical teams both here and in Germany are working to restore normal services as soon as possible. However, we expect services to resume later on today (Sunday). We regret the inconvenience caused."