Outage in Paystack
Kenya: Mpesa Intermittent Downtime
Resolved Minor
July 06, 2026 - Started 12 days ago
- Lasted about 7 hours
Incident Report
We are currently experiencing an issue with **Mpesa transactions** due to downtime on Mpesa's platform. This is causing most Mpesa payments to fail.Our team is in active communication with Mpesa, and we are working closely with them to restore full service as quickly as possible. We’ll share further updates as soon as they are available.
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INVESTIGATING
12 days ago - at 07/06/2026 08:08AM
We are currently experiencing an issue with **Mpesa transactions** due to downtime on Mpesa's platform. This is causing most Mpesa payments to fail.Our team is in active communication with Mpesa, and we are working closely with them to restore full service as quickly as possible. We’ll share further updates as soon as they are available.
IDENTIFIED
12 days ago - at 07/06/2026 08:53AM
We are continuing to work on a fix for this incident.
MONITORING
12 days ago - at 07/06/2026 10:38AM
We implemented a fix and are currently monitoring the result.
INVESTIGATING
12 days ago - at 07/06/2026 12:24PM
We are currently experiencing an issue with **Mpesa transactions** due to intermittent downtime on Mpesa's platform. This is causing some Mpesa payments to fail.Our team is in active communication with Mpesa, and we are working closely with them to restore full service as quickly as possible. We’ll share further updates as soon as they are available.
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