{"id":8292,"date":"2026-09-02T16:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T16:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/somalia24.com\/en\/?p=8292"},"modified":"2026-09-02T16:23:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T16:23:12","slug":"evc-plus-suffers-hours-long-service-disruption-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/somalia24.com\/en\/evc-plus-suffers-hours-long-service-disruption-in-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"EVC Plus Suffers Hours-Long Service Disruption in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Somalia\u2019s widely used EVC Plus mobile money service experienced an hours-long disruption on Wednesday, affecting money transfers, payments and other transactions before service was restored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">EVC Plus, one of Somalia\u2019s most widely used mobile money services, experienced a service disruption on Wednesday that lasted several hours and affected users in different parts of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Multiple users reported being unable to send or receive money during the outage. Some customers said they encountered an \u201cInternal Service Error\u201d message when attempting to carry out transactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The disruption also affected payments for goods and services at businesses that rely heavily on EVC Plus. Reports indicated that some money-transfer services and remittance-related transactions were also affected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">EVC Plus, operated by Hormuud Telecom, plays a central role in Somalia\u2019s financial system and is deeply integrated into the daily lives of millions of people and businesses across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The outage once again highlighted Somalia\u2019s heavy reliance on mobile money services. A prolonged disruption to a major platform such as EVC Plus can have an immediate impact on businesses, transportation, salaries, remittances and other essential economic activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As of publication, no official explanation had been provided for the cause of the disruption. There was also no verified evidence indicating that the outage was linked to a cyberattack or a security breach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The EVC Plus service was later restored and returned to normal operations.<\/p>\n\n    <div class=\"xs_social_share_widget xs_share_url after_content \t\tmain_content  wslu-style-1 wslu-share-box-shaped wslu-fill-colored wslu-none wslu-share-horizontal wslu-theme-font-no wslu-main_content\">\n\n\t\t\n        <ul>\n\t\t\t        <\/ul>\n    <\/div> \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somalia\u2019s widely used EVC Plus mobile money service experienced an hours-long disruption on Wednesday, affecting money transfers, payments and other transactions before service was restored. EVC Plus, one of Somalia\u2019s most widely used mobile money services, experienced a service disruption on Wednesday that lasted several hours and affected users in different parts of the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"postBodyCss":"","postBodyMargin":[],"postBodyPadding":[],"postBodyBackground":{"backgroundType":"classic","gradient":""},"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gudaha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/somalia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/somalia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/somalia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somalia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somalia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/somalia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8294,"href":"https:\/\/somalia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8292\/revisions\/8294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somalia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/somalia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somalia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somalia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}