A power outage and mobile money blackout expose the vulnerability of Zimbabwe´s economy
(WorldNews Africa)

On Saturday morning (Jul. 20) local time Zimbabweans experienced a system blackout on Econet Wireless, the country’s biggest telecoms operator after a significant power outage. Econet says the network challenges were caused by a fault that started when generators at its operations centre failed to kick in after a Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) power outage. But a power cut to Econet’s servers is no mere outage. It is effectively a major...