pawaPay incident

Performance degradation affecting MTN OpenAPI services

Resolved after 2 hours 8 minutes, affecting MTN :: Web Deposit and MTN :: Payout and 1 more, on October 7, 2026.

monitoring Oct 07, 2026, 04:28 AM UTC

A fix has been deployed by the respective MMOs. We are seeing improvements in success rates across the affected services and will continue monitoring the incident.

Started
Oct 07, 2026, 03:49 AM UTC
Resolved
Oct 07, 2026, 05:57 AM UTC
Duration
2h 8m
Detected by Pingoru
Oct 07, 2026, 03:49 AM UTC

Affected components

MTN :: Web DepositMTN :: PayoutMTN :: Web DepositMTN :: PayoutMTN :: Web DepositMTN :: PayoutMTN :: Web DepositMTN :: PayoutMTN :: Web DepositMTN :: Payout

Update timeline

  1. investigating Oct 07, 2026, 03:49 AM UTC

    We are experiencing an outage of MTN services across multiple markets. We are investigating the issue. Affected markets: Benin, Cameroon, DRC, CIV, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Uganda, and Zambia.

  2. monitoring Oct 07, 2026, 04:28 AM UTC

    A fix has been deployed by the respective MMOs. We are seeing improvements in success rates across the affected services and will continue monitoring the incident.

  3. resolved Oct 07, 2026, 05:57 AM UTC

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

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