pawaPay incident
Performance degradation affecting Malawi Airtel services
pawaPay experienced a critical incident on October 6, 2026 affecting Airtel :: Web Deposit and Airtel :: Payout, lasting 1h 52m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Airtel :: Web DepositAirtel :: Payout
Update timeline
- investigating Oct 06, 2026, 11:55 PM UTC
We are experiencing an outage of the Malawi Airtel services. We are investigating the issue.
- monitoring Oct 07, 2026, 12:08 AM UTC
A fix has been deployed by Malawi Airtel. We are seeing improvements in success rates and will continue monitoring the incident.
- resolved Oct 07, 2026, 01:48 AM UTC
The incident has been resolved. We apologise for the inconvenience.