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53 verified resources for building in Kenya.

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14
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25 Aug 2026

M-Pesa Daraja (Safaricom)

APIs

Safaricom's official Daraja 3.0 developer portal exposing the M-Pesa APIs (STK Push/Lipa Na M-Pesa, C2B, B2C, B2B, transaction status, account balance) for Kenya, the largest mobile-money network in Africa. Requires a registered developer account with sandbox testing before live credentials.

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Mobile Money
Verified Aug 2026

African-Whisper

AI

An open-source framework (PyPI: africanwhisper) for fine-tuning OpenAI's Whisper on multilingual African-language audio datasets such as Common Voice and FLEURS, with optimized inference, diarization and deployment. Created by Kevin Kibe.

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Speech (ASR/TTS)
Verified Aug 2026Free

Cloudflare Daraja MCP (pmutua)

MCP

A TypeScript MCP server deployed as a Cloudflare Worker that exposes Safaricom M-Pesa (Daraja) APIs as AI-callable tools for STK push, transaction status and payment verification. Maintained by individual developer pmutua.

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Payments
Verified Aug 2026Free / open-source

Daraja M-Pesa MCP (mboya)

MCP

A Python MCP server wrapping Safaricom's M-PESA Daraja API for natural-language payment processing, real-time callback handling and payment-history tracking, with sandbox and production support. Maintained by individual developer mboya.

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Payments
Verified Aug 2026Free / open-source

IntaSend API

APIs

Multi-rail payments API for Kenya/Africa — M-Pesa, cards, bank payouts, and payroll — with published per-rail pricing.

Scout-verified 2026-08-14: curl 200 on site + docs, WebFetch of /about confirms registration number, WebSearch cross-references CBK licensing and Nairobi HQ. See docs/scout/kenya-candidates.md.

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Payments
Verified Aug 2026M-Pesa 3%, Cards 3.5% (4.5% international), CashApp 4.5%

Jenga API

APIs

Jenga API is the open banking and payments API by Finserve Africa, a subsidiary of Equity Group, covering bank and mobile money transfers, airtime, forex and KYC across Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, DRC, South Sudan and Ethiopia. Its API explorer documents live and UAT endpoints on api.finserve.africa.

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Open Banking
Verified Aug 2026

KRA eTIMS System-to-System API

APIs

Kenya Revenue Authority's mandatory Electronic Tax Invoice Management System API (OSCU/VSCU) for system-to-system e-invoicing integration; all businesses issuing tax invoices must onboard.

Scout-verified 2026-08-14: curl 200 on kra.go.ke, etims subpage and etims.kra.go.ke portal, WebSearch cross-confirms mandatory PIN-based onboarding and OSCU/VSCU certification from KRA's own FAQ. See docs/scout/kenya-candidates.md.

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Institutional only
Government / Tax
Verified Aug 2026Free to integrate directly; third-party integrators may charge (amount not published)

KeNADA — Kenya National Data Archive (KNBS)

Datasets

Kenya's official microdata catalog — census, survey and administrative-record datasets across economic, social and demographic topics, maintained by the national statistics agency.

Scout-verified 2026-08-14: curl 200 on NADA portal and knbs.or.ke/knbs-data/, WebSearch independently describes the same portal and its access-policy requirement. See docs/scout/kenya-candidates.md.

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Microdata / Statistics
Verified Aug 2026

Kenya Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD)

Datasets

Official Common Operational Dataset administrative boundaries for Kenya, from national down through counties, sub-counties and wards. Provided on HDX as Shapefile and other GIS formats, maintained by OCHA together with the government. Free download and openly licensed.

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Geographic
Verified Aug 2026Free / open

Kenya — Subnational Population Statistics (HDX/UNFPA)

Datasets

County/sub-county population statistics for Kenya, a Common Operational Dataset (COD) companion to the already-listed OCHA admin-boundaries dataset — actual population counts, not just boundaries.

Scout-verified 2026-08-14: curl 200 on dataset page, HDX CKAN API returns same dataset with license/org metadata, metadata_modified 2026-05-07 confirms active maintenance. See docs/scout/kenya-candidates.md.

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Demographic
Verified Aug 2026Free — CC BY-IGO

Kopo Kopo API

APIs

Kenya's original "Buy Goods" till payment-aggregation and disbursement API for SMEs. Note: Kenyan-founded (Nairobi, 2011) but acquired by Moniepoint Inc. (Nigeria) in Aug 2023 — operating company has changed, product remains Kenya-market.

Scout-verified 2026-08-14: curl 200 on redirected site + docs subdomain, Moniepoint acquisition confirmed by 3 independent outlets (TechCabal, FintechFutures, StartupLagos), docs still live post-acquisition. See docs/scout/kenya-candidates.md.

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Payments
Verified Aug 2026

OkHi

APIs

OkHi is a digital addressing and address-verification platform built in Kenya and operating in Nigeria, letting businesses capture and verify a customer's physical address as a GPS point, photo and to-the-door instructions. It provides web and mobile SDKs for Android, iOS, Flutter, React and JavaScript.

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Addressing
Verified Aug 2026

PayLink MCP

MCP

A Python MCP payment framework (runnable via Docker or locally) that lets AI agents integrate payments, currently supporting M-Pesa via Daraja with Airtel Money, Equity Bank and KCB listed as upcoming. Maintained by the payelink org; successor to jameskanyiri/DarajaMCP.

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Payments
Verified Aug 2026Free / open-source

Peleza

APIs

Peleza is a Nairobi based provider of KYC, KYB, AML and background-check verification offering REST APIs, SDKs, webhooks and a sandbox that connect to official registries and watchlists. The documentation exposes concrete verification endpoints such as Credit Reference Bureau checks under base URL api.peleza.com.

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Identity Verification
Verified Aug 2026

Pesalink Developer API

APIs

Real-time bank-to-bank interbank transfer, account validation and bulk-payment API connecting Kenya's entire bank network via a single integration.

Scout-verified 2026-08-14: curl 200 on both domains, dev portal shows real product pages + self-service sandbox copy, World Bank Fast Payments case study confirms IPSL/KBA as operator. See docs/scout/kenya-candidates.md.

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Institutional only
Banking / Interbank
Verified Aug 2026

Safaricom Daraja MCP (Meshhack)

MCP

A multi-language (PHP/Node/Python) MCP implementation for the Safaricom Daraja API covering STK Push, C2B/B2C/B2B transfers, balance queries and QR generation. Maintained by Meshack Musyoka (Meshhack).

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Payments
Verified Aug 2026Free / open-source

Safaricom M-Pesa PHP SDK

Tools

A PHP library for integrating the Safaricom M-Pesa Daraja API, covering STK push, B2C, account balance and callback handling. Installed via composer require safaricom/mpesa.

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SDK
Verified Aug 2026Free / open-source

SasaPay API

APIs

Digital-wallet and Wallet-as-a-Service (WAAS) API — C2B, B2C, B2B, remittance, utilities — for agency banking and merchant collections.

Scout-verified 2026-08-14: curl 200/308 on sasapay.co.ke and docs.sasapay.app, WebSearch confirms C2B/B2C/B2B/WAAS product list and OAuth2, ViewTech Limited CBK PSP license (15 Sept 2021) independently confirmed. See docs/scout/kenya-candidates.md.

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Payments / Agency Banking
Verified Aug 2026

Turaco

APIs

Turaco is an African microinsurance and technology company headquartered in Kenya and operating in Uganda, Ghana, Nigeria and Zambia, exposing a public REST API for embedded and opt-in insurance. Its OpenAPI documented endpoints cover token authentication, products, customers, policies, claims and payments.

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Insurance API
Verified Aug 2026

UlizaLlama (Jacaranda Health)

AI

UlizaLlama is a 7B-parameter Swahili-and-English LLM fine-tuned from Meta's Llama 2 (continually pretrained on ~321M Swahili tokens) by Jacaranda Health in Kenya, built to power Swahili maternal-health SMS support for low-income expectant mothers in East Africa.

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LLM
Verified Aug 2026Free for research/social good; commercial use requires contacting Jacaranda Health

WapiMaji MCP

MCP

An MCP server giving AI agents real-time access to Kenya's water stress and drought data across all 47 counties, using NDMA drought phase classifications. Includes SMS alert capability via the Africa's Talking API.

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Water and Drought Data
Verified Aug 2026Free / open-source

africastalking-python

Tools

Official Python SDK for the Africa's Talking APIs, providing access to payments alongside SMS, voice, airtime, mobile data and WhatsApp services. Supports synchronous and asynchronous operations.

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SDK
Verified Aug 2026Free / open-source

django-daraja

Tools

Python Django library for interacting with the Safaricom M-Pesa Daraja API, simplifying STK push and related mobile money operations. Marked Production/Stable on PyPI with Read the Docs documentation.

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SDK
Verified Aug 2026Free / open-source

iPay Africa API

APIs

Kenyan payment-gateway API (C2B, B2B, B2C, STK Push, Billing) covering Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Togo, DRC. Correct docs host is dev.ipayafrica.com — docs.ipayafrica.com is unconfigured and /developers on the main site 404s.

Scout-verified 2026-08-14: curl 200 on main site + dev.ipayafrica.com sub-pages, both wrong docs URLs confirmed dead (403/404) before settling on the right one, WebSearch confirms founders/2010 founding/CBK authorization. See docs/scout/kenya-candidates.md.

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Payments
Verified Aug 2026