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Nigerian payments and collections platform (by SystemSpecs) whose Collections API lets billers generate a Remita Retrieval Reference (RRR), take payments across channels and check transaction status. Widely used for government and enterprise collections in Nigeria. Developer documentation and API assistant are published on its developer site.

[ingest-scout] South African payment orchestration platform giving merchants a single PCI-compliant API to route across 70+ payment methods including DebiCheck; fetched docs.reviopay.com and confirmed live docs with Swagger reference at gate.reviopay.com/api/ and webhook management. Adds an orchestration layer to Wycord's South Africa section (Yoco, Stitch, Ozow are point-solutions, not orchestrators).

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

SORMAS (Surveillance, Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System) is an open-source disease-surveillance and outbreak-management system written in Java. It was piloted and deployed for epidemic response in Nigeria and Ghana and is used by African public-health institutes to track infectious diseases. It is released under GPL-3.0.

SabiYarn-125M is a 125M-parameter decoder-only foundation model pretrained on Nigerian-language text, the first in the SabiYarn series. It supports English, Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo and Nigerian Pidgin plus Fulfulde, Efik and Urhobo, with fine-tuned variants for translation, NER, sentiment and diacritization. It was built by Aletheia.ai Research Lab and presented at the AfricaNLP 2025 workshop.

[ingest-scout] Tanzania's largest payment infrastructure operator (20,000+ merchants) with REST APIs for utility payments (LUKU electricity, GEPG government portal, water, TV, telecom top-up), wallet transfers, bank disbursements via Qwiksend, virtual card network, e-commerce checkout, and international money transfers. Fetched live this run with full reference docs, multi-language SDKs (PHP, Java, Python, Node.js, C#), and WordPress plugin integration.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

[ingest-scout] Open-source African speech AI ecosystem from UBC's Deep Learning & NLP Lab: 5 ASR models covering 43 languages, 7 TTS models covering 7 languages, spoken language identification for 49 languages, and SimbaBench evaluation dataset. Introduced at EMNLP 2025 (paper: 'Voice of a Continent'); models hosted on HuggingFace under UBC-NLP. Confirmed live at github.com/UBC-NLP/simba with CC-BY-4.0 license. Distinct from african-whisper (ASR only), bibletts (TTS only), and spitch (commercial) already in registry.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

[ingest-scout] South Africa's widely-used QR payment platform developer API covering QR code generation, payment status queries, and cash-up period management with code examples in JS, Python, Ruby, PHP, C#, and Java. Fetched live this run with full REST documentation and e-commerce integrations (WooCommerce, Magento, Shopify, PayGate); base URL pos.snapscan.io confirms active production service. Not yet in the registry despite broad SA merchant adoption.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

A PHP package that validates South African ID numbers by checking structural rules, the embedded birth date, gender and citizenship digits, and the Luhn checksum. It is actively maintained with a substantial test suite. Installable via Composer.

Official downloadable economic time-series from South Africa's national statistics office, including CPI, GDP, PPI, employment and trade indicators. Series are provided as Excel and ASCII flat files and refreshed on monthly and quarterly release schedules. Free public access with no login.

Geocoded inventory of 98,745 public-sector health facilities assembled from national master facility lists across 50 sub-Saharan African countries and islands. Records include names, facility types, admin locations and coordinates, distributed as CSV via figshare and Harvard Dataverse. Published in Nature Scientific Data (2019) under CC BY 4.0.

Sunflower-14B is a Qwen3-14B based multilingual LLM by Sunbird AI supporting translation and text generation across 31 Ugandan languages plus English. It achieves the highest translation accuracy in 24 of 31 evaluated language pairs and targets healthcare, agriculture, education and government use cases. It is released under Apache 2.0 with quantized GGUF and W8A8 variants available.

Network of automatic weather stations across sub-Saharan Africa recording rainfall, temperature, humidity, wind and radiation at sub-daily intervals. Observations are accessed through an API and web portal under a data-sharing agreement, free for education and research. The station data itself is real but sits behind account credentials rather than an open download.

Python text-augmentation library from the Data Science for Social Impact group at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. It provides word and sentence level augmentation methods such as WordNet, word2vec and mixup to expand training data for NLP models. It is widely used in low-resource and African-language NLP research.

Open-source platform for crowdsourcing, mapping and visualising crisis and civic reports, first built in Kenya during the 2008 post-election violence. Written primarily in PHP, it powers deployments for election monitoring, disaster response and human-rights reporting across Africa and worldwide. Actively maintained by the Nairobi-based Ushahidi organisation.

South African cryptocurrency exchange (licensed FSP 53308) providing a REST API for trading and a WebSocket service for streaming market, order and balance updates. Supports buying and selling 60-plus cryptocurrencies and withdrawing both crypto and fiat programmatically. API keys require account 2FA to be enabled.

[ingest-scout] 49 GB document-level pretraining corpus spanning 16 African languages (Yoruba, Amharic, Egyptian Arabic, Hausa, and others) plus English/French/Arabic/Portuguese, built by auditing mC4 and crawling verified news sources; fetched HuggingFace page and confirmed 239 monthly downloads, Apache 2.0 license, collection updated June 2025, and use as the training corpus for AfriTeVa V2. High-quality complement to Wycord's existing NLP datasets.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

Developer API from Wave, the mobile money operator dominant in Senegal and Cote d'Ivoire, for collecting payments, sending payouts and running bulk disbursements in FCFA. Provides checkout sessions, a sandbox and API-key management through the Wave Business portal. API access is granted to approved Wave Business accounts rather than fully self-service.

WideBot is an Egyptian, Arabic-first conversational AI platform for governments and enterprises that builds generative chatbots, voicebots and AI agents powered by its own Arabic LLM (AQL). It supports multiple Arabic dialects and English across web, social and messaging channels, with cloud, hybrid and on-premise deployment. In October 2025 it launched an AI voice agent for WhatsApp business calls, billed as the first such offering from an Arab company in the region.

The ID4D Practitioner's Guide is the World Bank's reference for designing and implementing inclusive, trusted digital identification systems, organised around the Principles on Identification for Sustainable Development. It covers system design, technology choices, procurement and governance, and is a core reference for identity as digital public infrastructure. The ID4D initiative focuses heavily on low- and middle-income countries, with much of its flagship work in Africa.

[ingest-scout] Kampala-based fintech API covering virtual and physical Visa card issuance, mobile money transfers, bank payments (26 Ugandan banks), bill payments, airtime distribution, and payment collection across East Africa. Fetched live this run showing auth, products, cards, and accounts API sections; token-based auth (60-min TTL) with production endpoints at api.xente.co. Would be Uganda's 4th registry resource.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

Zabantu is a family of XLM-RoBERTa masked language models (roughly 80M to 250M params) trained from scratch on South African Bantu languages including Tshivenda, Zulu, Xhosa, Swati, Northern and Southern Sotho, Setswana and Xitsonga. It serves as a benchmark for low-resource Bantu language NLP. It was built by the Data Science for Social Impact group at the University of Pretoria.

Official Africa's Talking SDK for Node.js wrapping the SMS, USSD, Airtime, Voice and mobile payments APIs. Published by Africa's Talking on npm with 160 plus GitHub stars and active maintenance. Africa's Talking is a pan-African communications and payments platform headquartered in Kenya.

A Node.js SDK for the Airtel Money API tailored to payment collections, with automatic OAuth2 bearer-token caching and refresh plus transaction handling for Airtel's African markets. It mirrors the maintainer's MTN MoMo SDK design. Published as airtel-money-node-sdk on npm.

A Kotlin Multiplatform SDK that streamlines integration with MTN Mobile Money (MOMO) services on Android and JVM, covering authentication, balance checks, and transaction processing. It ships with a sample Android app demonstrating each API operation. Maintained by Re.Kast Limited.