Paystack incident

Kenya: MPESA System Downtime

Major Ongoing

Paystack is currently experiencing a major incident affecting KENYA (M-PESA) and KENYA (M-PESA), which began 17h ago. The vendor's full update timeline is below.

Started
Aug 31, 2026, 08:09 AM UTC
Resolved
Ongoing
Duration
● 17h 18m
Detected by Pingoru
Aug 31, 2026, 08:09 AM UTC

Affected components

KENYA (M-PESA)KENYA (M-PESA)

Update timeline

  1. investigating Aug 31, 2026, 08:09 AM UTC

    Our partner, MPESA, is currently having a downtime on their platform, which is affecting mobile money transactions at the moment. As a result, most MPESA transactions are failing. We're currently liaising with them to fix the issues and restore the service.

  2. monitoring Aug 31, 2026, 08:40 AM UTC

    We implemented a fix and are currently monitoring the result.