🌍Pan-African

[ingest-scout] Unified TypeScript MCP server and monorepo SDK wrapping PayChangu (Malawi — direct charge, mobile money, bank transfers), PawaPay (20+ African countries — deposits, payouts, refunds), and OneKhusa (Malawi/Southern Africa — collections and disbursements). Exposes these as AI-accessible payment tools via @chiahq/mcp on npm. Active repo with 284 commits; last commit July 31 2026.

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Research data service cataloguing African household, labour and census microdata, centred on South Africa but including other African countries, with full survey documentation and questionnaires. Microdata downloads (Stata, SPSS, CSV) require a free account and agreement to terms, while the catalog itself is openly browsable. Maintained by the University of Cape Town.

Continental analysis-ready satellite data platform providing cropland extent, Water Observations from Space, coastline change, fractional cover and GeoMAD products for all of Africa. Data is served as Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF via a STAC API (explorer.digitalearth.africa/stac), OGC Web Services (ows.digitalearth.africa), an AWS S3 open bucket and a JupyterHub Sandbox. Products are derived from Landsat and Sentinel and are continuously updated.

This World Bank Group paper sets out a shared approach to digital public infrastructure, framed around interoperable digital identity, digital payments and data-exchange layers as the foundation for inclusive digital economies. It provides definitions, guiding principles and safeguards to help countries plan and govern DPI. Much of the World Bank's DPI work targets low- and middle-income countries, including across Africa.

Near-real-time remote-sensing database of evapotranspiration, biomass production and water productivity covering Africa and the Near East. Data is provided from continental to field scale (300m, 100m and 30m) as GeoTIFF and through an API, refreshed on a dekadal (10-day) cadence. Free and open access from FAO.

[ingest-scout] Remote MCP server (no API key required, endpoint: fylings.com/api/mcp) providing AI agents with live access to 1M+ companies across 18 African business registries including Nigeria CAC, Tanzania BRELA, Kenya, Ghana, Senegal RCCM, Uganda, Mauritius, Angola, and more. Offers four tools: registry search, full company record retrieval, government procurement awards (500K+), and OFAC/UN sanctions screening. Glama listing fetched and confirmed active this run; listed in the official MCP registry under io.github.HeyZod/fylings.

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GSMA Intelligence's Mobile Economy Africa 2025 report quantifies the mobile industry's economic and social contribution across the continent. It reports that the mobile sector contributed 220 billion US dollars, about 7.7 percent of GDP, in 2024, and projects growth toward 270 billion dollars by 2030. The report also covers 4G and 5G adoption, the mobile internet usage gap, and AI and satellite connectivity trends.

The GSMA Mobile Money API is a harmonised, industry-governed REST and JSON specification covering common mobile money use cases such as merchant payments, disbursements, P2P and international transfers, bill payments and account linking. It defines a standard set of transaction types abstracted from provider-specific implementations and ships a developer portal with a sandbox simulator, an OAuth 2.0 gateway and SDKs. Version 1.2 is the current release.

The GSMA State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money is the industry's definitive annual reference, prepared by the GSMA Mobile Money programme. The 2026 edition (published March 2026) reports that more than 2 trillion US dollars flowed through mobile money in 2025 and that the industry reached 2.3 billion registered accounts, up by 268 million. Most new registered and active accounts came from Sub-Saharan Africa, the industry's largest region.

Machine-learning building footprint dataset first released for Africa and now covering 1.8 billion detections, each with a polygon, confidence score and Plus Code. Africa is served both as the original continent-wide product and as per-country GeoParquet/GeoJSON extracts on HDX. Data downloads as CSV by S2 cell, via gsutil, Google Earth Engine or the web explorer; latest v3 is May 2023.

IrokoBench is a human-translated evaluation benchmark for 16 typologically diverse African languages covering three tasks: natural language inference (AfriXNLI), knowledge QA (AfriMMLU) and mathematical reasoning (AfriMGSM). It is widely used to measure the performance gap between English and African languages in large language models. It was released by the Masakhane community and published at NAACL 2025.

IrokoBench is a human-translated evaluation benchmark covering 17 typologically diverse low-resource African languages across three tasks: natural language inference (AfriXNLI), mathematical reasoning (AfriMGSM) and knowledge-based multiple-choice QA (AfriMMLU). The paper evaluates open and proprietary LLMs and documents a large gap between high-resource languages and African languages, with the best open model reaching about 63 percent of GPT-4o performance. It was published at NAACL 2025.

Community MCP server that connects an AI assistant to the Jumia Vendor API, providing access to catalogs, shops, product feeds, the Jumia Express fulfilment program and order management. Jumia is the largest pan-African e-commerce marketplace, and no e-commerce seller MCP is otherwise present in the registry.

The Level One Project Guide is the Gates Foundation reference model for inclusive instant payment systems and pro-poor digital financial services. It sets out principles and a reference architecture for real-time retail payments that connect banks and non-bank providers through a shared national switch, and it informed the design of Mojaloop. The current guide edition was published in 2025.

Lugha-Llama is a Llama-3.1-8B model continually pretrained on the WURA African-language corpus to lift performance on low-resource African languages. It ships in three variants (wura, wura_edu, wura_math) and reaches leading results among similarly sized models on the IrokoBench and AfriQA African-language benchmarks. It was built by researchers at Princeton University.

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.

MOSIP is a modular open-source foundational digital identity platform that governments use to build national ID systems while retaining ownership and avoiding vendor lock-in. Its specifications build on open standards including OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect, OpenAPI, ISO/IEC 19794 biometrics and CBEFF, and add the Claim 169 QR specification for offline identity verification. It is used by multiple African governments as the basis of their foundational digital ID programmes.

MTN Mobile Money developer platform exposing Collections (Get Paid), Disbursements (Pay), Remittances and account APIs across MTN's African markets. Offers a self-service sandbox and documentation, with production access approved per country. MTN MoMo is one of the largest mobile money networks on the continent.

MasakhaNER 2.0 introduces the largest human-annotated named entity recognition dataset for 20 African languages and studies Africa-centric cross-lingual transfer learning. The paper reports that choosing the best transfer language improves zero-shot F1 by an average of 14 points across the 20 languages compared with transferring from English.

Community MCP server for MTN Mobile Money that exposes MoMo payment operations as tools an MCP client can call, with approval gates, spend limits, idempotency, an audit log and a kill switch. It targets the MTN MoMo sandbox and includes an explicit safety test suite. MTN Mobile Money is a pan-African mobile wallet used across Ghana, Uganda, Rwanda, Cameroon and other markets.

The Mojaloop specification set defines an open API for interoperable transactions between financial service providers, enabling a payer at one provider to pay a payee at another. It documents the FSP Interoperability (FSPIOP), Administration, Settlement and Third-party Payment Initiation APIs and is published under a Creative Commons license. It is the reference standard behind several national instant payment switches used in Africa and beyond.

[ingest-scout] B2B payout API from NALA, a Bank of Tanzania-licensed PSP, enabling programmatic disbursements to 11 African markets with 99.3% delivery within one hour (per published SLA). Docs publicly accessible and fetched this run; API launched 2024 (TechCrunch-confirmed) and currently in closed-beta phase (registration by invitation). Meaningful Pan-African payout infrastructure distinct from existing remittance and mobile-money entries.

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NileChat-3B is a 3B-parameter LLM built on Qwen2.5-3B and adapted for Egyptian and Moroccan communities, handling Egyptian and Moroccan dialectal Arabic in both Arabic script and Arabizi alongside Modern Standard Arabic, French and English. It was trained with controlled synthetic data and translated corpora and outperforms its Qwen2.5-3B baseline on Arabic benchmarks. It was released by the UBC Deep Learning and NLP Lab and accepted at EMNLP 2025.

Community MCP server for Orange Money WebPay covering Senegal plus 10 Francophone West and Central African countries, with 8 tools for web payments, status checks, cash-in and cash-out. It uses OAuth2 client-credentials auth and is published to npm as @theyahia/orange-money-mcp. Orange Money is one of the largest mobile money networks across Francophone Africa.