by MTHULISI SIBANDA
JOHANNESBURG, (CAJ News) – THE cloud infrastructure company AFRICLOUD has activated mobile money payments across 11 African markets where mobile wallets are the main payment platform.
The service is active in Benin, Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Uganda and Zambia.
Airtel Money, MTN MoMo, Orange Money and Vodacom M-Pesa are the supported wallet brands, alongside national wallets such as Free Money, MOOV and Zamtel.
Following the launch, businesses can now pay for AFRICLOUD services directly from the mobile wallets already in use for daily commerce. This is in addition to credit card, PayPal and cryptocurrency options. Mobile money joins cards, PayPal and over 300 cryptocurrencies as accepted payment methods, giving customers in the 11 markets the widest set of options AFRICLOUD has offered since its launch in 2025, the company noted.
AFRICLOUD stated that the integration converts customers’ local mobile wallet currency into its billing currency automatically. Cloud servers are provisioned once payment is confirmed.
From Lisbon, Portugal, the company delivers measured latency under 15ms (milliseconds) to Casablanca, Morocco, and under 60ms to Cairo, Egypt. From Johannesburg, South Africa, AFRICLOUD delivers sub-10ms latency to 12 Southern African countries.
Oluniyi Ajao, founder of AFRICLOUD, commented on the activations.
“Every technical problem our customers solve on our infrastructure is downstream of one non-technical problem: can they pay us,” he said.
The executive added, “For a large part of our market, the answer used to be ‘not easily’. Mobile money changes that across these 11 countries.”
AFRICLOUD cites data from the GSMA State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money 2024, indicating Sub-Saharan Africa processed US$1,1 trillion in mobile money transactions, representing 65 percent of global mobile money transaction value, and 40 percent of adults in the region now hold a mobile money account. In most of the countries where AFRICLOUD operates, mobile wallet penetration materially exceeds bank card penetration.
Serving businesses across Africa, Europe and South America, it provides compute, storage and networking from data centres in Johannesburg and Lisbon.
– CAJ News