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EthioLLM is a family of multilingual language models (XLM-RoBERTa and mT5 based) for five Ethiopian languages: Amharic, Ge'ez, Afaan Oromoo, Somali and Tigrinya, plus English. The large variant EthioLLM-l-70K is a fine-tuned XLM-RoBERTa-Large used for masked language modeling and downstream tasks like classification, NER and sentiment. It was released by the EthioNLP collective alongside the Ethiobenchmark evaluation suite.

[ingest-scout] Ugandan cross-border payments API covering 18 African markets including Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Ghana, Tanzania, Rwanda, Côte d'Ivoire, South Africa, and Zambia, with mobile money + bank rails and stablecoin (USDC/USDT) funding. Full REST API docs live at eversend.readme.io with PHP SDK on GitHub and batch disbursement endpoint confirmed operational.

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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.

Community MCP server for Kenya investment and capital markets, offering FastMCP tools such as a Treasury bond calculator, a Nairobi Securities Exchange equities guide, unit trust comparison, IPO guidance and diaspora investment help. Published to the official MCP registry, Smithery and Glama. Tools return demo or guidance data rather than a live exchange API.

Community MCP server for Fawaterak, an Egyptian payment aggregator, exposing 8 tools for invoice creation, payment methods, status and refunds across Fawry, cards, wallets and Meeza. It is part of theYahia's WWmcp monorepo and is published to npm as @theyahia/fawaterak-mcp. Egypt is not otherwise covered by the registry's African payment MCP servers.

Payment API for francophone Africa that lets businesses collect funds and pay out to mobile money accounts through payment links, hosted pages and direct API integration. Built for markets where mobile money is dominant, with SDKs and a developer sandbox. Headquartered in Benin.

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.

xTTS-v2-wolof is a text-to-speech model for Wolof built by GalsenAI by fine-tuning Coqui's xTTS v2 on the cleaned Anta Women Wolof TTS dataset. It synthesizes Wolof speech and can clone a voice from a reference clip as short as 6 seconds. It was developed by the GalsenAI community in Senegal.

Open-source English-to-Twi translation project by the GhanaNLP community, targeting one of Ghana's most widely spoken languages. The repository holds the data pipeline and notebooks used to build the translation system. It is part of GhanaNLP's wider effort to build tooling for Ghanaian languages.

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.

[ingest-scout] Open-access harmonized subnational crop statistics for 33 Sub-Saharan African countries from 1980–2022, containing 574,204 records across 94 crop types at Admin-1 and Admin-2 levels (area, production, yield). Published in Scientific Data 2025 (doi:10.1038/s41597-025-05001-z), GitHub repo confirmed live at v1.2. Critical food-security and agriculture dataset not yet in the registry.

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Francophone Africa payment infrastructure that unifies mobile money, bank transfer, card and crypto rails behind a single Pay-In and Pay-Out API. Operates across nine West and Central African countries including Cote d'Ivoire, Senegal, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Mali, Niger, Guinea and Togo, aggregating providers such as Wave, Orange, MTN and Moov. Often described as the Stripe for francophone Africa.

Indigenius is CDIAL AI's conversational and voice AI product line that understands and speaks African languages, offering a voice API, voice cloning and deployable AI agents. Its Indigenius Agent Pro service exposes AI agents and models through a playground for both developers and non-technical users, targeting communication in 180+ African languages such as Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo. It is built by CDIAL AI, which operates from Lagos, Nigeria.

API marketplace from Interswitch, one of Africa's largest digital payment infrastructure companies, exposing Quickteller and payment services for airtime, bill payments to 3000-plus billers, bank transfers, wallet and virtual card management. APIs are RESTful with JSON requests and require a developer console account with client credentials. Headquartered in Nigeria with pan-African reach.

Community MCP server that exposes Interswitch APIs (payments, transfers, VAS, cardless paycodes, Transaction Search, Card 360, lending, payouts, agency banking) to AI agents. Ships as the npm package interswitch-mcp-server and supports both Interswitch sandbox and production environments. Interswitch is one of Nigeria's largest payment processors, so this fills a gap not covered by the registry's Paystack and Flutterwave servers.

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.

PROMPTS is an AI-enabled maternal-health service from Kenya's Jacaranda Health that sends stage-appropriate pregnancy and postpartum messages and runs an AI helpdesk that reads and answers mothers' questions, triaging high-risk cases and sparking a rapid human referral chain. It integrates a Swahili-speaking large language model (UlizaLlama) to tailor responses and has reached more than 3.8 million mothers in Kenya, with a launch in Kano State, Nigeria. It is delivered through partnerships with national Ministries of Health.

JuaFlow is a Nairobi-built platform that lets businesses build, deploy and govern their own custom AI agents that run full workflows across HR, finance, support and operations rather than only chat. Agents deploy on WhatsApp, web widgets and Slack via a no-code studio, with built-in governance frameworks and tuning for low bandwidth, multiple languages and regional data. It launched in July 2025 with 15 companies and about one million recorded interactions.

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.

[ingest-scout] KCB Group's official developer portal for Kenya, regulated by the Central Bank of Kenya (footer confirmed 'Regulated by the Central Bank of Kenya © 2026 KCB Buni'). Fetched buni.kcbgroup.com and confirmed four live API categories: Send Money (M-PESA, Airtel Money, T-Kash, VOOMA, bank transfers), Receive Payments, Interoperability (billers/merchants/agents), and Account Services, with a sandbox at sandbox.buni.kcbgroup.com/devportal/apis. Not in registry; fills the Kenya commercial-bank open-API gap.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

Community MCP server for Kenya Revenue Authority topics, offering 6 tools including a PAYE calculator, VAT guidance, PIN registration help and tax incentive lookups. Built with FastMCP and published to the official MCP registry, Smithery and Glama. It adds Kenyan government and tax coverage that the registry otherwise lacks. Data is described by the author as demo or guidance rather than a live KRA API integration.