Moyale Residents Face Over Three Years Without Money Transfer Services

Residents of Moyale town, a key cross-border trading hub situated on the Ethiopia-Kenya border, are experiencing severe disruptions due to a prolonged lack of financial infrastructure. According to reports provided by local residents to Addis Standard, banking and money transfer services in the town have been completely unavailable for over three years. To access basic financial services, such as sending or receiving funds, individuals are forced to travel over 200 kilometers to neighboring towns like Mega and Yabelo. This ongoing suspension has significantly raised daily costs and added extensive travel burdens to the community. Local families, cross-border traders, and medical patients seeking care are among the most severely impacted by these financial service outages. The situation continues to consume valuable time and resources from the residents of this major commercial border post.