BOOMING BUSINESS: A customer conducting a mobile money transfer, known as M-Pesa, inside the Safaricom mobile phone care centre in the central business district of Kenya's capital Nairobi. — Reuters
DONI, Ethiopia: Outside a small store on a dirt track in the remote Ethiopian town of Doni, long queues wait for government cash handouts by the most modern of methods: mobile phone.
Ethiopia, Africa’s second most populous country and one of its fastest growing economies, is pushing a new electronic payment service by phone – called M-Birr, or “mobile-money” – in a bid to bring millions into the banking system and financial services.
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