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09/10/2026

As Customer Service Week comes to an end today, we recognise the dedication of our frontline teams who support our partners.

Our partner support teams bring Onafriq's values of Care, Simplify, Be Tenacious and Be Revolutionary to life through their work every day.

From resolving challenges to helping partners navigate day-to-day operations, their work plays an essential role in making payments as simple as a phone call.

To our support teams, thank you for your hard work, patience and unwavering commitment to making borders matter less.

01/10/2026

Six African countries celebrate their independence this month. 🎉

🇳🇬 Nigeria, 1 October
🇬🇳 Guinea, 2 October
🇱🇸 Lesotho, 4 October
🇺🇬 Uganda, 9 October
🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea, 12 October
🇿🇲 Zambia, 24 October

From all of us at Onafriq, Happy Independence Day.

If it's your country's day, tell us how you're celebrating in the comments. 👇

30/09/2026

🔒 What if fraudsters stole your card details… and they were useless?

That's what tokenisation enables. When you add your card to a digital or mobile money wallet, your real card number is locked away and replaced with a stand-in code. You pay with the code, and your real details stay safe.

In February 2026, Onafriq became one of the first prepaid card processors in Central Europe, the Middle East and Africa to support Visa digital wallet tokenisation.

Tap with confidence. ✅

👉 Read how tokenisation protects card payments across Africa: https://f.mtr.cool/tofi6cc043

24/09/2026

Happy Heritage Day, Mzansi 🇿🇦

South Africa has 12 official languages, and Heritage Day celebrates them all. Here's how South Africans say and sign one word used every day: money.

🔹 Geld (Afrikaans)
🔹 Imali (isiZulu, isiXhosa, siSwati and isiNdebele)
🔹 Chelete (Sesotho)
🔹 Tšhelete (Sepedi)
🔹 Madi (Setswana)
🔹 Mali (Xitsonga)
🔹 Tshelede (Tshivenda)
🔹 🫰🏽 (South African Sign Language, the newest official language)

Whatever it's called, it's used the same way: sent home to family, split at the braai, saved for the kids, or lent to a friend until payday.

Which word do you use? Tell us in the comments 👇

22/09/2026

Tanzania now has more mobile money wallets than people.

According to TCRA data, the country recorded 87.05 million active mobile money accounts in the quarter ending June 2026, compared with a population of approximately 68 to 69 million.

Transactions also increased by 5.38% from the previous quarter, showing that activity continues to grow across the country’s mobile money ecosystem.

By connecting wallets to cards and enabling cross-border merchant payments, we know first-hand how mobile money can support a wider range of payment experiences. We’re excited to see what Tanzania’s continued growth makes possible for people and businesses.

👉 See how Onafriq connects mobile money across Africa: https://f.mtr.cool/7i5vbv8vd4

11/09/2026

Grace Anyetei, Onafriq’s Regional General Manager for Southern & East Africa, has a clear lens on what it takes to lead and grow in fintech.

In her recent FinHer Africa narrative, she separates two issues that often get blended together: funding and confidence. For women in fintech, funding is a structural obstacle, one that individual determination cannot fix. Confidence, however, is the variable each person can control. That’s why she consistently returns to one practical message: start before you feel ready.

Her perspective is especially relevant for clients working in payments and financial services. In many markets across Southern and East Africa, solutions must be localised to different customer behaviours, infrastructure realities and regulatory environments. Grace brings the same approach to leadership: there’s no one-size-fits-all approach, and collaboration matters.

What stands out is her emphasis on continuous learning and deep technical understanding of how payments move across corridors and systems. For organisations, her message becomes a powerful reminder: structural barriers and personal readiness are different problems. We can support both, through better systems for equity and through leadership development that builds confidence to act.
If you’re building for the future, Grace’s guidance is simple: fix what’s within the organisation’s control, and keep empowering individuals to step forward now.

See Grace Anyetei's advice to women earlier in their fintech careers: https://f.mtr.cool/5ojmfz9de6

02/09/2026

As part of Ethiopia’s National Digital Payments Strategy, the Ministry of Finance recently took another step toward allowing interoperable government payments and a nationwide payments overhaul.

Through a fully interoperable ecosystem, all public institutions in Ethiopia will soon be able to accept payments from any regulated financial institution. This marks an advance from digital payments policy to real-world ex*****on and continues to build on the country's digital public infrastructure.

Learn more about this move in Ethiopia here: https://f.mtr.cool/iwvhell1y5

30/07/2026

As part of our broader strategy to modernise pan-African payments, we’ve partnered with Privy to build regulated stablecoin infrastructure for our B2B partners, supporting a new generation of digital payment services.

For banks, fintechs and mobile money operators, our goal is to provide access to secure multi-modal wallets and more efficient movement of value across the continent, in line with regulatory frameworks.

We're excited about the possibilities for unlocking liquidity across African markets, and our partnership with Privy gives us a building block for faster settlement and treasury management.

Learn more in the comments.

26/07/2026

If you've got family or friends in Liberia, today's the day to send a little extra love their way. Liberia marks 179 years of independence on 26 July as the first African nation to declare itself a republic. From everyone at Onafriq, happy Independence Day to the Liberian community at home and around the world.

Tag someone you're celebrating with today.

23/07/2026

Rachel Balsham leads partnerships and growth at Onafriq, which means she spends her days thinking about how money actually gets from one person to another across African borders.

If you're working in another country, the funds you send to your family back home are known as remittances. But what happens when the country you're working in faces a major crisis?

Rachel sat down with Bloomberg's Next Africa podcast earlier this year to discuss how unrest in the Middle East – for example, the war in Iran – affects families in Africa who rely on remittances. Here are her insights:

🔹 Around 30% of the remittances our partners in Uganda and Tanzania receive come from the Middle East.

🔹 Since May, that flow has dropped noticeably.

🔹 For many households, that money is their only income: the difference between paying for school fees, healthcare, or food this month or not.

🔹 A drop like this doesn't stay contained; it shows up later in education, health and nutrition outcomes.

As global crises reshape economies, Rachel explained that understanding what remittances mean to households and countries that depend on them has never been more important.

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