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MAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand) vs MasakhaNEWS

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MAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand)MasakhaNEWS
Category
Datasets
Datasets
Type
Language / NLP
Language / NLP
Country
🌍 Pan-African
🌍 Pan-African
Docs status
Docs live
Docs live
Licensing
Pricing
Free / open (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Free / CC-BY-NC 4.0
Verified
Unverified
Verified
Last verified
10 Oct 2026
10 Oct 2026
Tags
nlp, african-languages, news, machine-translation, parquet
nlp, african-languages, text-classification, news, topic-classification
Links
Website Docs GitHub
Website Docs GitHub
Summary
Largest news-domain machine translation benchmark for African languages, covering 21 languages with English or French as source. It contains 142,909 parallel sentences in parquet with train, dev and test splits, hosted on HuggingFace. Licensed CC BY-NC 4.0.
News-topic-classification dataset for 16 widely spoken African languages (incl. Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, Nigerian Pidgin), ~31,088 rows in CSV/Parquet with train/val/test splits across seven topic categories. Built by the Masakhane community.

MAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand) vs MasakhaNEWS at a glance

MAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand) and MasakhaNEWS are both listed under Language / NLP in Wycord's Datasets index.

Both are based in Pan-African.

Both currently show the status "Docs live".

On access, both are marked "No approval needed".

Over the last 30 days Wycord's probes measured 100% uptime for MAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand) (36 checks) and 100% for MasakhaNEWS (36 checks).

Average response time on live probes was 160 ms for MAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand) and 247 ms for MasakhaNEWS.

Uptime and latency come from Wycord's own probes of each resource's website, documentation and repository, run every six hours.

How they differ

  • Pricing: MAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand), Free / open (CC BY-NC 4.0); MasakhaNEWS, Free / CC-BY-NC 4.0.
  • Verification: MAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand), Unverified; MasakhaNEWS, Verified.
  • Average latency: MAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand), 160 ms; MasakhaNEWS, 247 ms.

Topics

Both are tagged: nlp, african-languages, news.

Only MAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand): machine-translation, parquet.

Only MasakhaNEWS: text-classification, topic-classification.

Common questions

Which has better uptime, MAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand) or MasakhaNEWS?
They are level at 100% over the last 30 days.
Do MAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand) or MasakhaNEWS need approval before use?
Both are marked "No approval needed".
Is the documentation for MAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand) and MasakhaNEWS working?
Both show "Docs live" at the last check.
Where are MAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand) and MasakhaNEWS based?
Both are based in Pan-African.

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