I am following a couple of threads on some Kenyan mailing lists and apparently Zain Kenya may just have upped the ante with regards to International mobile money transfers on its Zap service. The news I’m picking up is that Zap users in Kenya can now receive International money transfers

Just picked-up this video of highlights on Safaricom’s CEO Michael Joseph speaking at the Kenya Diaspora Conference in Atlanta, USA. Credits for the same go to Mshale.com, an online Kenyan Diaspora Magazine.

Over the last week or so, many of Safaricom’s M-Pesa subscribers we’re affected by service failures that meant that they could nether send or receive payments. For many M-Pesa users, its not just a money transfer service, its a lifeline that they need just to function financially. Many un-banked M-Pesa