🌍Pan-African

Orange's official API on its developer portal for accepting online payments through Orange Money mobile wallets. Covers 11 African countries including Mali, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Senegal, Madagascar, Guinea, Sierra Leone and DR Congo, with customers validating purchases via a USSD one-time password. Integration requires an Orange partner agreement.

This landmark Masakhane paper proposes a participatory research model that lets non-specialist speakers meaningfully contribute to building machine translation for their own languages. The work released novel translation datasets and MT benchmarks for more than 30 African languages, with human evaluations for about a third of them. It was published in Findings of EMNLP 2020.

[ingest-scout] The most comprehensive African NLP evaluation benchmark to date — 517 African languages and varieties, 16 tasks (classification, NER, QA, reasoning, generation), published at ACL 2025. Created by UBC-NLP to systematically assess LLM performance on African languages and expose policy-induced data inequities. HuggingFace dataset card was fetched and confirmed active. Distinct from all existing registry datasets (MasakhaNER, AfriSenti, etc.) in its continent-wide scale and multi-task scope.

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[ingest-scout] Open banking API aggregating 85+ banks across Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, and Nigeria (among MENA/African markets). Covers account linking, transaction history, income/employment/address verification, spending analytics, and webhooks via OAuth 2.0 and credential-based auth. Developer docs fetched live at sahlfinancial.com/developers.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

Geocoded inventory of 98,745 public-sector health facilities assembled from national master facility lists across 50 sub-Saharan African countries and islands. Records include names, facility types, admin locations and coordinates, distributed as CSV via figshare and Harvard Dataverse. Published in Nature Scientific Data (2019) under CC BY 4.0.

Network of automatic weather stations across sub-Saharan Africa recording rainfall, temperature, humidity, wind and radiation at sub-daily intervals. Observations are accessed through an API and web portal under a data-sharing agreement, free for education and research. The station data itself is real but sits behind account credentials rather than an open download.

The ID4D Practitioner's Guide is the World Bank's reference for designing and implementing inclusive, trusted digital identification systems, organised around the Principles on Identification for Sustainable Development. It covers system design, technology choices, procurement and governance, and is a core reference for identity as digital public infrastructure. The ID4D initiative focuses heavily on low- and middle-income countries, with much of its flagship work in Africa.

First continent-scale predictive soil property maps for Africa at 30m resolution, covering organic carbon, pH, texture class, sand, clay, stone content and nutrients at 0-20cm and 20-50cm depths. Each property is published as Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF (mean and model error layers) on Zenodo under CC BY 4.0. Released 2021 by iSDA with ISRIC.