pawaPay incident

Performance degradation affecting Zamtel NFS Zambia services

Resolved after 17 hours 50 minutes, affecting NFS :: Zamtel :: Payout and Zamtel :: USSD Deposit, on September 29, 2026.

monitoring Sep 30, 2026, 06:28 AM UTC

A fix has been deployed by our engineering team. We are seeing improvements in success rates and will continue monitoring the incident.

Started
Sep 29, 2026, 01:39 PM UTC
Resolved
Sep 30, 2026, 07:29 AM UTC
Duration
17h 50m
Detected by Pingoru
Sep 29, 2026, 01:39 PM UTC

Affected components

NFS :: Zamtel :: PayoutZamtel :: USSD Deposit

Update timeline

  1. investigating Sep 29, 2026, 01:39 PM UTC

    We are experiencing an outage of the Zamtel NFS Zambia services. We are investigating the issue.

  2. investigating Sep 29, 2026, 03:42 PM UTC

    This is a quick update to inform you that we are still experiencing an outage in our NFS Zamtel Zambia payout and Zamtel Zambia USSD gateways, but are closely following up on it with the mobile money operator. We'll provide an update as soon as possible.

  3. investigating Sep 29, 2026, 04:31 PM UTC

    This is a quick update to inform you that we are still experiencing an outage in our Zamtel NFS payout gateway, but are closely following up on it with the mobile money operator. We'll provide an update as soon as possible.

  4. investigating Sep 29, 2026, 04:33 PM UTC

    This is a quick update to inform you that we are still experiencing an outage in our Zamtel NFS payout gateway, but are closely following up on it with the mobile money operator. We'll provide an update as soon as possible.

  5. investigating Sep 30, 2026, 02:42 AM UTC

    This is a quick update to inform you that we are still experiencing an outage in our Zamtel NFS Zambia payout gateway, but are closely following up on it with the mobile money operator. We'll provide an update as soon as possible.

  6. monitoring Sep 30, 2026, 06:28 AM UTC

    A fix has been deployed by our engineering team. We are seeing improvements in success rates and will continue monitoring the incident.

  7. resolved Sep 30, 2026, 07:29 AM UTC

    The incident has been resolved. We apologise for the inconvenience.

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