pawaPay incident
Performance degradation affecting MTN OpenAPI services.
pawaPay experienced a critical incident on April 16, 2026 affecting MTN :: Web Deposit and MTN :: Web Deposit and 1 more component, lasting 6h 44m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- identified Apr 16, 2026, 07:19 AM UTC
We are experiencing degraded performance in the MTN OpenAPI services. We are investigating the issue.
- identified Apr 16, 2026, 07:29 AM UTC
We are experiencing degraded performance in the MTN OpenAPI services. We are investigating the issue.
- monitoring Apr 16, 2026, 09:32 AM UTC
We are seeing improvements in success rates and will continue monitoring the incident.
- monitoring Apr 16, 2026, 10:47 AM UTC
We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.
- identified Apr 16, 2026, 10:49 AM UTC
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
- identified Apr 16, 2026, 10:55 AM UTC
We are experiencing degraded performance in the MTN OpenAPI services. We are investigating the issue.
- monitoring Apr 16, 2026, 12:19 PM UTC
We are seeing improvements in success rates and will continue monitoring the incident.
- resolved Apr 16, 2026, 02:04 PM UTC
The incident has been resolved. We apologise for the inconvenience.