{
  "id": 16854183,
  "title": "Safaricom confirms nationwide M-Pesa outage",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/safaricom-confirms-nationwide-m-pesa-outage",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-28T05:00:40.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Capital FM Kenya",
    "slug": "capital-fm-kenya",
    "url": "https://capitalfm.africa/safaricom-confirms-nationwide-m-pesa-outage/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "NAIROBI, Kenya Oct 28 – Kenyans woke up to challenges accessing M-PESA on Wednesday morning, with users reporting difficulties completing mobile money transactions as Safaricom confirmed a system issue affecting…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "People Daily Kenya",
        "title": "Safaricom reports 46.4B M-PESA transactions in one year",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/safaricom-reports-46-4b-m-pesa-transactions-in-one-year",
        "published": "2026-10-28T05:46:26.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}