Kenyans Lose it as Massive Outage Hits Top Mobile Network

For several hours Safaricom subscribers were left restarting their phones a thousand times, while others bought Internet bundles in bulk trying to go online - to no avail. Several subscribers took to Twitter to voice their concerns over the outage to protest the massive voice and data outage.

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A Safaricom customer uses M-Pesa to make a transaction.

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