The mobile money service was previously owned by UK's Vodafone Group PLC till recently when Safaricom and Vodacom jointly bought Mpesa.
Today, M-Pesa is an African owned mobile money platform with Safaricom owning 50 percent shares and Vodacom owning the remaining 50,percent shares.
M-Pesa is now registered in Kenya as M-Pesa Africa Limited, ready to serve Africans the african way.
But do you know which African Country Citizens can own an active M-Pesa wallet? To have an Mpesa wallet, one must either be a Safaricom subscriber or a Vodacom subscriber.
Here are the countries in Africa whose residents can easily own and benefit from an M-Pesa wallet account;
- Kenya
- Lesotho
- Tanzania
- Ghana
- Mozambique
- Egypt
- Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
Citizens of African countries apart form the ones listed above can still receive cash sent from an M-Pesa wallet to their mobile wallets run by other telcos in those countries.
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