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Lengo AI operates Sadio AI, a WhatsApp conversational assistant that lets informal African retailers track sales, monitor stock and benchmark prices in their local language, while crowdsourcing real-time retail data for FMCG brands. Founded in Senegal and now Lagos-based, Lengo pairs the AI assistant with field agents to make previously invisible corner-shop commerce measurable. Clients include global FMCG brands such as Nestle and Lactalis.

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.

HuggingFace datasets: leyu-amharic/leyu-amharic-addis-ababa-dialect (321 dl). amharic, africa, ethiopia, dialect, speech, asr, tts

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

HuggingFace datasets: hadamard-2/leyu-amharic-gojjam-dialect (202 dl). amharic, africa, ethiopia, dialect, speech, asr, tts

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

HuggingFace datasets: hadamard-2/leyu-amharic-gonder-dialect (207 dl). amharic, africa, ethiopia, dialect, speech, asr, tts

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

HuggingFace datasets: leyu-amharic/leyu-amharic-wello-dialect (362 dl). amharic, africa, ethiopia, dialect, speech, asr, tts

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

[ingest-scout] JavaScript/TypeScript SDK and REST API for automated mobile money payment verification in Ghana, supporting MTN MoMo, Telecel (Vodafone) Cash, and AirtelTigo Money (GHS only). Fetched docs.getlokipay.com and confirmed live documentation covering order creation, status polling, webhooks, and a pre-built React LokiPayCheckout component (marked 'NEW'). The npm package lokipay-vfm was at version 2.5.1 as of the research run, with version 2.0.0 published 16 hours prior to the search. Not in registry; fills Ghana mobile-money verification tooling gap.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

Lua is an Agent OS for building, deploying and governing enterprise-grade AI agents that handle customer support, lead qualification, appointment scheduling and multi-step workflows across WhatsApp, Slack, web and social channels. Agents are written in real TypeScript with Zod validation and testing, and the platform is model-agnostic across OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Perplexity and Meta. It is Nairobi-rooted and built on its founders' East African fintech experience, with early customers including Kenyan and Ugandan fintechs Turaco, Umba, Tushop and Numida.

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.

South Africa headquartered cryptocurrency exchange offering a REST API for account, wallet and trading operations plus a streaming WebSocket feed for market and order updates. Lets developers access market data, place orders and move crypto and fiat programmatically. Widely used across African and international markets.

Official MCP server from Luno, published under the company's GitHub org, that wraps the Luno Cryptocurrency API for market data, trading and account operations. Written in Go with SonarCloud quality gates and a Homebrew tap. Luno was founded in Cape Town, South Africa and is a major crypto on and off ramp in South Africa and Nigeria.

Community MCP server that lets an AI agent drive guarded M-Pesa payment workflows through typed tools, including STK push, transaction state checks, callback handling, receipts and operator approvals. It is a production-shaped prototype built on FastAPI with Redis rate limiting, PostgreSQL persistence, an audit trail and a React operator dashboard. This is a fuller financial-action platform than the thin Daraja wrappers already in the registry.

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.

MALIBA-AI Bambara TTS is a neural text-to-speech model for Bambara (Bamanankan), the most widely spoken language in Mali, built on the Spark-TTS framework with a Qwen2.5-based backbone of around 500M parameters. It supports 10 authentic Bambara speaker voices and outputs 16kHz mono audio without a separate vocoder. It is released under a non-commercial MALIBA-AI research license.

[ingest-scout] Developer API platform from MNotify (now BMS — Bulk Messaging Solution), a Ghana-specific messaging company (Ghana phone number +233 54 150 9394 confirmed in search results; page header reads 'MNotify Ghana'). Fetched readthedocs.mnotify.com (formerly developer.mnotify.com, which 301-redirects to developer.bms.africa) and confirmed live documentation for SMS, Voice, USSD, and IVR REST APIs using API-key authentication. Active Shopify app listed and LinkedIn page confirms Ghana HQ. Not in registry; fills Ghana telecom/messaging API gap distinct from Arkesel.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

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.

[ingest-scout] Tanzanian payment aggregator covering all 5 Tanzanian MNOs (M-Pesa, Mixx by YAS, Airtel Money, Halotel/HaloPesa, TTCL Pesa) plus CRDB/NMB bank transfers and Visa/MC via a single API at core-prod.malipopay.co.tz/api/v2/. Developer docs fetched live and confirmed updated August 20 2026.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

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.

[ingest-scout] Egyptian payment gateway licensed by the Central Bank of Egypt; developer portal at app.masrpay.com/developer is live with documented endpoints for access token generation, payment initiation, and payment status. Page presents as 'QRPAY Payment Gateway Solutions Developer API Documentation'. Targets Egyptian merchants and aggregators.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

Whisper-Small-Kinyarwanda is an automatic speech recognition model fine-tuned from OpenAI's Whisper-small on the Common Voice Kinyarwanda dataset, achieving about 24 percent word error rate. It transcribes Kinyarwanda audio into text for speech applications. It was built by Mbaza NLP, part of the Digital Umuganda voice-technology ecosystem in Rwanda.

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.

Mojaloop is an open-source reference implementation of an interoperable real-time payments switch built for financial inclusion in emerging markets. It provides the ledger, interoperability and settlement components used to connect banks, mobile money and fintechs, and it underpins national instant-payment systems including Tanzania's TIPS. It is governed by the Mojaloop Foundation under Apache-2.0.

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.