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[ingest-scout] Suite of 10 open large language models from McGill-NLP adapted for 20–50 African languages via continued pre-training on 26–35B tokens; includes AfriqueLlama-8B, AfriqueQwen variants (4B–14B), and AfriqueGemma variants (4B–12B). Backed by ACL 2026 research paper (arXiv:2601.06395); models updated June 2026 with active downloads. Covers languages not served by registry entries (Amharic, Tigrinya, Oromo, Wolof, Bambara, Moroccan/Egyptian/Tunisian Arabic, Malagasy, Afrikaans, etc.).

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[ingest-scout] Large-scale benchmark from McGill-NLP for evaluating large language models across African languages; covers diverse NLP tasks and language families. Active GitHub repository under the same McGill-NLP lab that produced AfriqueLLM. Complements IrokoBench (already in registry) but targets broader language coverage and LLM evaluation. Confirmed live on GitHub under McGill-NLP organisation.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

Nationally representative public-attitude surveys on democracy, governance, the economy and society across roughly 39 African countries and nine survey rounds. Country-level and merged multi-country datasets are provided with codebooks in SPSS, Stata and CSV. Data is free to use; the most recent Round 9 covers 2021 to 2023.

[ingest-scout] Official Airtel Money developer portal covering Collections and Disbursements (payroll, refunds, cross-border transfers) across 14 African markets including Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Zambia, Malawi, Rwanda, Niger, DRC, Burkina Faso, and Côte d'Ivoire, using OAuth 2.0. Confirmed live via Airtel press release, API tracker (apitracker.io), and multiple independent integration guides published in 2025–2026; sandbox at openapiuat.airtel.africa.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

HuggingFace datasets: snapwre/amharic-asr-benchmark (245 dl). amharic, ethiopia, benchmark, evaluation, low-resource

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HuggingFace datasets: snapwre/amharic-speech (750 dl). speech, ethiopia, low-resource, crowdsourced

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Apache Fineract is an open-source core-banking engine for financial inclusion, providing the accounting, loan, savings and client APIs used to build microfinance and digital-lending systems. Written in Java, it is the technology behind the Mifos platform and is deployed by microfinance institutions and fintechs across Africa. It is Apache-2.0 licensed and very actively developed.

Ethiopian fintech offering a payment gateway API for collecting payments across multiple local methods, based in Addis Ababa. Provides a developer portal with sandbox and production environments and bank-grade security. Enables businesses to build checkout and payment flows for the Ethiopian market.

[ingest-scout] Cross-border FX and payment API for African markets (and Europe), formerly known as BitPesa and TransferZero, enabling programmatic fund sending and receiving across African corridors including ZAR. Fetched live this run showing copyright 2026 and full documentation covering authentication, SDKs, transaction creation, recipient validation, and webhook monitoring; active OpenAPI spec also available at specification.transferzero.com.

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[ingest-scout] Tanzania's largest payment gateway API covering all major mobile wallets (Tigopesa, AirtelMoney, M-Pesa), cards, and banks in Tanzania and Rwanda from a single REST endpoint. Interactive docs with sandbox, Flutter/Golang/WooCommerce SDKs confirmed live at azampay.com/developers; Python wrapper actively maintained on GitHub (Neurotech-HQ/azampay). Tanzania has no payment coverage in the registry.

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Bambara-ASR-v2 is an automatic speech recognition model for Bambara (Bamanankan) fine-tuned from OpenAI's Whisper-large-v2 using parameter-efficient tuning, reaching about 25 percent word error rate. It handles natural Bambara-French code-switching common in Mali's multilingual context. It is released under Apache 2.0 as part of the MALIBA-AI community initiative.

Communication platform originating in Tanzania that offers SMS, OTP, USSD, airtime and voice APIs for reaching customers across Africa. Its SMS API sends to numbers in more than 22 regions with delivery reports, backed by documentation and sample code. Beem states coverage of 150-plus mobile networks and ISO 27001 compliance.

Pan-African payment aggregator founded by a former Orange executive that lets merchants accept mobile money and card payments from multiple carriers through a single contract and API. Exposes Mobile Money, Merchant Payment and card APIs documented on its developer portal and Postman workspace, with 3DS filtering on card transactions. Focused on West and Central African markets.

Website https://www.bizao.com removed 2026-10-01: the domain now 301-redirects to an unrelated gambling site, and dev.bizao.com has no DNS record.

[ingest-scout] Open-source TypeScript SDK providing a single provider-agnostic interface for Tanzania's major payment rails: AzamPay, ClickPesa, Selcom, and Snippe. TZS-native, full type safety, MCP-server integration, and AI-agent-compatible docs at borapesa.dev (fetched and confirmed live). 205 commits, 9 stars, last updated July 2026. Fills the TZ developer-tooling gap; complements individual TZ entries already in the registry.

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The Community Health Toolkit Core Framework by Medic is an open-source toolkit for building offline-first digital health apps for community health workers. Written in JavaScript, it is deployed in Kenya, Uganda, Mali, Nigeria and other African countries to support last-mile primary care. It is AGPL-3.0 licensed.

[ingest-scout] Cameroon-focused mobile money payment gateway API (launched January 2021 by Takwid Group) supporting MTN Mobile Money and Orange Money Cameroon. Python SDK on GitHub (CamPay/campay-python-sdk), Android SDK, Postman API docs, and WooCommerce plugin all confirmed live. Fills the gap as the domestic Cameroonian payment API — distinct from Notch Pay which is a multi-country aggregator.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

Ethiopian payment service provider offering a developer API to accept payments, run transfers, create virtual accounts and manage transactions. Supports local Ethiopian payment methods and mobile wallets with a hosted checkout and REST API. One of the leading online payment gateways in Ethiopia.

Community MCP server for Chapa, an Ethiopian payment gateway, exposing 8 tools for payment initialization, verification, transfers, bank lookups and balance. It is part of theYahia's WWmcp emerging-markets monorepo and is published to npm as @theyahia/chapa-mcp. Ethiopia is not otherwise represented among the registry's payment MCP servers.

[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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African payment gateway founded in 2016 offering collection and money transfer via mobile money and bank cards (Visa, Mastercard) across francophone markets. Provides direct API, hosted checkout and SDKs in JavaScript, Python, Go, Flutter and PHP. Headquartered in Cote d'Ivoire and serving multiple West and Central African countries.

[ingest-scout] Tanzanian payment aggregator with a live REST API docs site covering M-Pesa, Airtel Money, Mixx by YAS, HaloPesa, NMB/CRDB bank transfers, and Visa/MC cards. Exposes Hosted Checkout, BillPay, TanQR/Lipa Namba, Mobile USSD-PUSH, Card API, and Payout API endpoints. Docs site fetched live; distinct from AzamPay and Selcom already in the registry.

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DHIS2 is a large open-source health information management system, written in Java, containing the service layer and web API. It is used as the national routine health information system by many African ministries of health for immunisation, disease surveillance and program reporting. It is developed by the HISP programme at the University of Oslo and released under BSD-3-Clause.

Darli AI is a multimodal agronomic advisory agent from Ghanaian agritech Farmerline that gives smallholder farmers personalised guidance via WhatsApp, voice and a web platform in 27 languages, including 20 African languages. Farmers can ask questions or send a photo of a diseased crop and receive a diagnosis plus treatment advice for staples such as cassava, cocoa, maize, coffee and rice, alongside weather, market and regenerative-farming guidance. It was named to TIME's Best Inventions of 2024 and reports over one million users across roughly 60 countries.

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.