pawaPay incident
Performance degradation affecting Malawi Airtel services
pawaPay experienced a critical incident on May 29, 2026 affecting Airtel :: Web Deposit and Airtel :: Payout, lasting 42m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Airtel :: Web DepositAirtel :: Payout
Update timeline
- investigating May 29, 2026, 10:00 PM UTC
We are experiencing an outage of the Malawi Airtel services. We are investigating the issue.
- monitoring May 29, 2026, 10:23 PM UTC
A fix has been deployed by Malawi Airtel. We are seeing improvements in success rates and will continue monitoring the incident.
- resolved May 29, 2026, 10:43 PM UTC
The incident has been resolved. We apologise for the inconvenience.