Safaricom, Kenya’s biggest mobile operator, has announced a deal with Western Union, the international money transfer company, to enable its M-Pesa mobile money service subscribers to receive direct cash transfers from Western Union agents worldwide.
Consumers can now send money directly to the mobile ‘wallets’ of Safaricom M-PESA subscribers in Kenya from 45 countries and territories,” explains Karen Jordaan, East and Southern Africa Director at Western Union.
The service taps into Africa’s huge remittances flows, which the World Bank estimates to have totalled $40bn in 2010.
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