Across East Africa more than 300,000 households previously without electricity are powering homes and devices with solar panels and using mobile money to pay for it. Their power provider is M-KOPA, an ...

Battery indicator somewhat inaccurate. Port status indicators don't always work. If something goes wrong, battery isn't "user-replaceable." As I came off a hot and dusty Nairobi street into the ...

Fintech pioneer deploys $2 billion in credit to Africa's "Every Day Earners" - micro entrepreneurs invisible to traditional banks The company's 2025 Impact Report reveals that 9 out of 10 active ...

M-KOPA has issued over KSh 207 billion in credit since 2010 and supported 4.5 million smartphone customers M-KOPA’s customer base has grown to 4.9 million across all products, including 2.1 million ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. M-KOPA, the asset financing platform that offers underbanked African customers access to “productive assets” and the ability to ...

Tom Opiyo is the best-performing salesperson at M-Kopa Solar, a Kenyan company selling solar power systems to the very poor. Watching him work, it’s not hard to see why. Opiyo is a pastor who used to ...

A 2019 World Bank report says 85% of Africans live on less than $5.50 per day. A large percentage of these adults are unbanked and underbanked; thus, they don’t have access to credit and can’t afford ...

In rural Kenya, people walk for miles in the blistering sun after work just to watch television in the nearest town. At 7pm, in the village restaurants, the music turns off, and the news turns on. In ...

Africa-focused asset financing firm M-Kopa has disbursed more than $2 billion in credit to 7 million customers in five countries since it was founded, it said in a report published Monday. The company ...

Former Director General of Vision 2030 Mugo Kibati has been appointed as M-Kopa Solar board’s chairman. Mr Kibati is Group CEO of Pan Africa Insurance and Board Chairman of Lake Turkana Wind Power Ltd ...