Tag: Ethiopia

The audited results of Safaricom for the financial year ended March 31, 2026, show a company firing on most cylinders ...

Uganda’s latest immigration and cybercrime sweep has exposed what appears to be a tightly run scam operation inside a Kampala ...

Safaricom Telecommunications Ethiopia (STE) experienced a 64.3% decline in M-PESA revenue between September 2024 and November 2025. Last year, when ...

Kenya is the largest importer of solar panels in the Eastern African (EA) region. In terms of capacity, the country ...

When it comes to defining Africa's aviation future no one does it better than the Ethiopians. Ethiopian Airlines was founded in ...

Ethiopian Airlines, the largest airline group in Africa, has signed a 7-year Flight Hour Services (FHS) contract with Airbus. This ...

Research carried out by telecommunication research company Cable UK finds Kenya to have quite expensive monthly internet packages. In addition, ...

Kenyan president William Ruto was recently in the USA where he announced plans to waive taxes on the first 100,000 ...

The Ethiopian Communications Authority (ECA) has taken steps to make it cheaper for Ethiopian residents to make phone calls. The ...

The African Development Bank’s 2023 East Africa Economic Outlook forecasts that growth in the region will surpass 5%.  Hence, the ...

Onafriq, an African digital payments network, and Safaricom’s M-Pesa have signed an International Money Transfer Agreement. The agreement aims to ...

2024 has begun with the Senegalese and Sudanese governments shutting down the internet in parts of their countries. This bad ...

Liquid Intelligent Technologies (Liquid) has officially launched a fully redundant terrestrial fibre link. The first route is a 1000KM fibre ...

On Wednesday 16th August 2023, Safaricom officially launched its mobile banking service M-Pesa in Ethiopia. “We are excited to go ...

Safaricom PLC have released a statement announcing the departure of Anwar Soussa. Anwar Soussa has been with the telco since ...

Safaricom Ethiopia through its newly established and wholly owned subsidiary, Safaricom M-PESA Mobile Financial Services PLC (Private Limited Company) received ...

Sometime last week, telco Safaricom hosted its first-ever investor day event with the aim of updating its stakeholders on the ...

Safaricom services in Ethiopia are a done deal, and most of the work has been completed over the course of ...

The Safaricom Ethiopia story started a long time ago. The Ethiopia bid was a tough one and involved a lot ...

Safaricom Ethiopia is now officially open, following an event that was attended by Kenya’s President William Ruto, among others including ...

The road to launching services in Ethiopia has been long for Safaricom. After lots of bidding and going through multiple ...

Safaricom services have since gone live in Ethiopia. The launch, which is still in its pilot phase, comes more than ...

This week, Safaricom kicked off operations in Ethiopia. The operations, which start as a pilot for residents in the city ...

Safaricom, among its partners (Vodacom Group, Sumitomo Corporation, and CDC Group all named Global Partnership for Ethiopia (GPE)), acquired operating license for ...

Safaricom Ethiopia has since started operations, following years of lobbying in the country that cost it USD 850 million. When ...

Safaricom operations in Ethiopia have since started following years of lobbying and waiting for approvals from various state agencies in ...

The Digital Quality of Life Index series, also known as DQL has released its third annual issue. The edition names ...

By now, we are aware that Safaricom is in Ethiopia. The telco is insanely popular locally and has exported its ...

Safaricom has since been given a go-ahead to enter the lucrative Ethiopian market after a long period of bids and ...

A few weeks ago, we learned that the plan to have Safaricom carrier services in Ethiopia was a done deal ...

It has been confirmed that Safaricom has finally entered the Ethiopia market, following a report published by Bloomberg that the ...

Rumours about a Safaricom entry in Ethiopia, and effectively the launch of M-PESA services in the country started way back ...

Ethiopia has been on a path to partly privatize its telecoms industry. Over the last couple of months, the country ...

Safaricom has made it to the shortlist of the six companies that have been cleared to bid for the coveted ...

Safaricom and its partners have signed an agreement to borrow $500 million from the US International Development Finance Corporation to ...