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A PHP package that provides a single interface to collect and disburse mobile money across multiple African networks, including MTN Mobile Money, Airtel Money and Zamtel, via a simplified USSD-based payments API. It abstracts per-network differences behind one API. Maintained from Zambia and installable via Composer.

API and web application by South African civic-tech NGO OpenUp that lets citizens explore the financial performance of South Africa's municipalities. Built in JavaScript and Python, it powers the Municipal Money site published with the National Treasury. It turns municipal budget and audit data into accessible public dashboards.

[ingest-scout] B2B payout API from NALA, a Bank of Tanzania-licensed PSP, enabling programmatic disbursements to 11 African markets with 99.3% delivery within one hour (per published SLA). Docs publicly accessible and fetched this run; API launched 2024 (TechCrunch-confirmed) and currently in closed-beta phase (registration by invitation). Meaningful Pan-African payout infrastructure distinct from existing remittance and mobile-money entries.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

NaijaVoices is a large-scale speech dataset of about 1,800 hours from over 5,000 speakers with expert-curated transcripts in Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba, roughly 600 hours per language. It is designed for building ASR and speech AI for Nigerian languages and improves Whisper and MMS fine-tuning performance. It is available on HuggingFace behind a free registration and powers models like AfriHuBERT and SBPN.

NileChat-3B is a 3B-parameter LLM built on Qwen2.5-3B and adapted for Egyptian and Moroccan communities, handling Egyptian and Moroccan dialectal Arabic in both Arabic script and Arabizi alongside Modern Standard Arabic, French and English. It was trained with controlled synthetic data and translated corpora and outperforms its Qwen2.5-3B baseline on Arabic benchmarks. It was released by the UBC Deep Learning and NLP Lab and accepted at EMNLP 2025.

[ingest-scout] Cameroon-founded pan-African payments platform with live Mobile Money APIs in Cameroon (MTN, Orange), Côte d'Ivoire (Wave), Senegal (Wave, Orange, Free), Kenya (M-Pesa), Uganda (Airtel), and Ghana (MTN). Developer portal confirmed live with Direct API, SDK, and no-code checkout — distinct from the PHP SDK (notchpay-php) already in the registry; this is the core API product itself.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

[ingest-scout] Cameroon-headquartered payment gateway covering Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, and Senegal; accepts MTN Mobile Money, Orange Money, Mastercard, Visa, and bank transfers via RESTful API. Live developer docs confirmed at developer.notchpay.co with API reference updated January 2026, mobile money endpoint, SDKs for PHP/Node/JS, and sandbox. Fills a Francophone West Africa gap — the registry has notchpay-php (the PHP SDK) but not the platform API itself.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

Go port of Google's libphonenumber, maintained by Nyaruka, the Kigali, Rwanda software company behind the RapidPro and TextIt messaging platforms. It parses, validates and formats phone numbers for any country and underpins messaging and fintech systems that route to African mobile networks. It is MIT licensed and heavily depended upon in the Go ecosystem.

ODK Collect is an open-source Android app for offline mobile data collection using XLSForm-based forms, written in Kotlin. It has been used to gather billions of data points and is a core field-data tool for African health, agriculture, election-monitoring and research programmes. It is Apache-2.0 licensed and actively maintained by the ODK community.

Django and Python data-collection, aggregation and sharing platform from Ona, the Nairobi-based data company. It ingests XLSForm and ODK submissions and exposes them via API for analysis, and is used across African health, agriculture and humanitarian survey programmes. It is released under a BSD 3-clause license.

The Open Banking Nigeria API Standard is a RESTful specification for secure data sharing and payment initiation between Nigerian banks and third-party providers. It defines Registration, Meta Directory, Data-Inquiry (Open Data) and Payment API categories and is maintained by the Open Technology Foundation. It aligns with the Central Bank of Nigeria's open banking regulatory framework, for which the CBN issued Operational Guidelines in 2023.

OpenLMIS is an open-source electronic logistics management information system for last-mile health commodity supply chains. The reference distribution bundles the services that track stock, orders and distribution of medicines and vaccines, and it is deployed in Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique. It is AGPL-3.0 licensed.

OpenMRS is an open-source medical record system platform whose Java API and web application form the foundation for national electronic medical record systems in several African countries, including Kenya's KenyaEMR. It supports patient records, encounters and clinical data in low-resource settings. It is released under the Mozilla Public License 2.0.

Community MCP server for Orange Money WebPay covering Senegal plus 10 Francophone West and Central African countries, with 8 tools for web payments, status checks, cash-in and cash-out. It uses OAuth2 client-credentials auth and is published to npm as @theyahia/orange-money-mcp. Orange Money is one of the largest mobile money networks across Francophone Africa.

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] Malawi's leading payment gateway, PSP-licensed by the Reserve Bank of Malawi in 2024; fetched developer.paychangu.com/docs/welcome and confirmed live documentation covering cards, mobile money, bank transfers, and Malawi-specific bills (Escom electricity, MRA taxes, DStv). Only Malawian payment infrastructure candidate — fills a geography Wycord has zero coverage of.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

[ingest-scout] Malawi's leading payment gateway API supporting mobile money (Airtel, TNM), bank transfers, and cards — the first instant bank-transfer API for Malawian merchants. Live developer docs confirmed at developer.paychangu.com with Inline/Standard checkout, disbursements, utility bill payments (Escom, DStv), and Python/Go SDKs on GitHub. Fills a complete gap: Malawi has no coverage in the registry.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

[ingest-scout] Malawi's leading payment gateway — first in the country to launch an instant bank-transfer API for merchants (July 2025). Supports mobile money, card, bank transfer, airtime, and utility bill payments (Escom, MASM) in MWK; Python, Go, and PHP SDKs on GitHub, WooCommerce plugin available. Live docs confirmed at developer.paychangu.com. Malawi is entirely absent from the current registry.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

Senegalese payment platform offering online collection and disbursement across francophone West Africa via mobile money and cards. Provides a REST API, hosted checkout, invoices and a SoftPay integration, documented on its developer site. Serves Senegal plus neighbouring markets such as Cote d'Ivoire, Benin, Togo, Burkina Faso and Mali.

[ingest-scout] Zimbabwe's primary payment gateway developer hub supporting EcoCash, Telecash, Zimswitch, Visa, and Mastercard with official SDKs in PHP, Node.js, Java, Python, and .NET. URL returns 403 (bot/WAF protection) but infrastructure is confirmed live via the active GitHub org (github.com/paynow, 12 repos, recent activity) and Google-indexed quickstart pages. Would be Zimbabwe's first registry entry.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

African payment gateway serving merchants across South Africa, Mauritius and other regional markets with a Payments API, checkout, payment links, mobile SDKs and point-of-sale devices. Supports cards and multiple alternative payment methods behind a single integration. Documentation is published on its developer hub.

Pindo Voice AI is a Kigali-based platform for building and deploying voice AI agents in African languages including Kinyarwanda, Kiswahili and Luganda. Its agents let customers complete banking tasks by voice, such as money transfers, loan applications and card management, and provide round-the-clock voice support tuned to African languages and dialects. It serves finance, health, agriculture and development organisations in East Africa on a pay-by-minute model.

Proto is an AI customer-experience platform for emerging markets whose AICX assistants combine rule-based and generative AI to automate customer support, complaint intake and citizen engagement, with agent-to-agent handoff and takeover by human agents. It supports low-resource and local languages and is a WhatsApp Business and Meta partner, with a regional team in Kigali and national AI voice-agent deployments in Rwanda (Kinyarwanda). Clients include the National Bank of Rwanda and the Bank of Ghana.