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Safaricom buys M-Pesa
BUSINESS

Safaricom Takes Full Control Of M-Pesa After Buying Out Vodafone

This marks a significant milestone in the telecommunications and mobile financial services industry, as Safaricom now has full control of M-Pesa, its flagship...

Safaricom Ethiopia Investors
BUSINESS

World Bank Formally Takes Up Stake In Safaricom Ethiopia

Safaricom Ethiopia is set to receive funds from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), members of the World...

A customer at an M-Pesa agent outlet. In 2007, Safaricom and Vodafone launched M-PESA in Kenya as a way for customers to instantly send money to each other. [Photo/ Kuza Biashara]
BUSINESSMARKETS

M-Pesa Africa Hits 50 Million Active Customers

Into the future, the service has been investing in new technologies and partnerships as it seeks to deepen financial health amongst its customers...

FEATURED STORY

Safaricom Makes Significant Step Towards Ethiopia Entry

The telco and its parent companies, Vodafone and Vodacom have formed a joint investment vehicle dubbed Global Partnership For Ethiopia through which they...

Who owns M-Pesa brand www.businesstoday.co.ke
FEATURED STORY

Safaricom Finally Buys Back M-Pesa Brand

Vodacom Group CEO Shameel Joosub said this is a milestone for Vodacom as it will accelerate financial services aspirations in Africa.

Peter Ndegwa Safaricom CEO www.businesstoday.co.ke
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Here Cometh Kenyan CEO For Safaricom. Should We Be Worried?

The most successful company in the region - both in terms of profits and innovation - being led by one of our own...

Domestic violence. In Kenya, more than half a million (505,000) working women have taken time off work because of domestic abuse in the past year. www.businesstoday.co.ke
FEATURED STORY

Battering Women Costs Kenyans Billions Every Year

Men batter women for a number of reasons but new report reveals that the vice is not just costing households it is costing...

Peter Ndegwa New Safaricom CEO Profile www.businesstoday.co.ke
FEATURED STORY

Peter Ndegwa: Safaricom CEO’s Peculiar Shift From High to Hello!

Now Kenya’s leading mobile operator has a substantive CEO and - if it makes anyone happy - he’s a Kenyan.

Bob Collymore Safaricom NSE
FEATURED STORY

Picking Next Safaricom CEO Boils Down to a Small Group of 10

Now that the Kenyan government retreated from influencing the choice of the next Safaricom chief executive, focus has shifted to the board of...