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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.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

[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.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

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.

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.

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.

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.

[ingest-scout] South African credit bureau REST API suite covering identity verification against the Department of Home Affairs, bank account verification, AML/PEP sanctions screening, CIPC company search, FaceTec biometric checks, and affordability assessments. Developer Hub confirmed live with Swagger tool and API Manager; processes millions of API calls monthly for SA banks and insurers. Fills the South Africa KYC/credit data gap in the registry.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

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.

[ingest-scout] Rwanda-based NLP organization Digital Umuganda's Conformer-CTC ASR model trained on 660 hours of Kinyarwanda speech (Afrivoice dataset); last updated December 2 2025, 52 monthly downloads, CC-BY-4.0 license, built on NVIDIA NeMo. Distinct from the already-inventoried mbaza-whisper-small-kinyarwanda — this is a larger NeMo-based model; fills Rwanda AI infrastructure representation.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

[ingest-scout] Uganda-headquartered multi-country payments API (founded 2015) covering 15 African nations — mobile money across Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal, and others; bank transfers in South Africa and Nigeria. Sandbox and production endpoints confirmed live at developer.dusupay.com; one of the broadest East+West Africa coverage gateways not yet in the registry.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

[ingest-scout] Rwanda-based fintech aggregator (Central Bank of Rwanda licensed PSP) connecting developers to telecom operators, banks, utilities, and government services across Rwanda, Malawi, and Zambia via a single REST API — covers mobile money, bulk SMS, USSD, airtime, utility payments, and tax remittances. Built since 2013 by Future Dynamic Innovations; processes 30B+ transactions annually. Developer portal confirmed live; Rwanda, Malawi, and Zambia are underrepresented in the registry.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

A Python tool for validating Egyptian 14-digit national ID numbers and parsing embedded data such as date of birth, gender and governorate code. It checks format and governorate compliance for use in web apps and data validation. Published on PyPI as egyptian-id-validator.

[ingest-scout] Official developer portal for Telebirr, Ethio Telecom's mobile money platform serving 44M+ users in Ethiopia. Provides sandbox testing, API reference, sample code, video tutorials, and In-App SDK for integrating payments, STK push, and mandate-based transactions. Portal confirmed live at developer.ethiotelecom.et with Postman workspace also published. Ethiopia is a major gap in the registry — only Chapa (a third-party gateway) is currently listed.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

[ingest-scout] Ethiopian language ASR model fine-tuned from Facebook w2v-bert-2.0 (600M params) on Amharic speech, achieving 22.37 WER on the WAXAL Amharic test set; paper published March 2026 (arXiv:2603.23654), dataset updated June 2026, 1.03k monthly downloads, CC-BY-4.0. Developed by the Ethio-ASR research team — a verified live model filling the Ethiopia AI gap in the registry.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.