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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.

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).

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[ingest-scout] The most comprehensive African NLP evaluation benchmark to date — 517 African languages and varieties, 16 tasks (classification, NER, QA, reasoning, generation), published at ACL 2025. Created by UBC-NLP to systematically assess LLM performance on African languages and expose policy-induced data inequities. HuggingFace dataset card was fetched and confirmed active. Distinct from all existing registry datasets (MasakhaNER, AfriSenti, etc.) in its continent-wide scale and multi-task scope.

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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] Open banking API aggregating 85+ banks across Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, and Nigeria (among MENA/African markets). Covers account linking, transaction history, income/employment/address verification, spending analytics, and webhooks via OAuth 2.0 and credential-based auth. Developer docs fetched live at sahlfinancial.com/developers.

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[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.

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[ingest-scout] West African mobile-money aggregator API headquartered in Dakar, Senegal covering 14 countries (Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Mali, Benin, Togo, Niger, Guinea, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, CAR, Chad, DRC). Supports Wave, Orange Money, MTN, Moov, Free Money, Airtel, Expresso, T-Money via REST with HMAC-SHA256 webhooks; full API docs at api.sene-pay.com/docs.html (fetched and confirmed live). Sandbox available; 3.6% commission model. Real infrastructure, not a wrapper.

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[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.

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[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.

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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.

[ingest-scout] 3,000+ hours of ASR-ready speech across 7 South African languages: isiZulu, isiXhosa, Sesotho, Setswana, Xitsonga, isiNdebele, and Tshivenda (the latter two are critically under-resourced). Fetched the HuggingFace page; dataset is fully released (100% complete for all languages), 831 GB, 2,630 monthly downloads, published December 2025 by the DSFSI group at University of Pretoria. South Africa has almost no speech dataset representation in the registry despite having 11 official languages; this directly addresses that gap.

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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.

[ingest-scout] Cameroon-focused payment API supporting MTN Cameroon Mobile Money, Orange Money Cameroon, Visa/Mastercard, and bank transfers via 23-digit CEMAC accounts, plus bulk payouts (up to 2,000 recipients per request) and SMS/OTP services. Fetched the docs; separate sandbox (SAND_ key prefix) and production (PROD_) environments confirmed, with an active API reference. Fills the Francophone Central Africa gap — CamPay and NotchPay are already in the registry, but TranZak offers a distinct REST stack with CEMAC banking rails.

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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.

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[ingest-scout] Somalia's dominant payment gateway connecting EVC Plus (Hormuud), ZAAD (Telesom), WAAFI and SAHAL mobile wallets plus card and bank accounts. The live developer docs at docs.waafipay.com (redirected from developer.waafipay.net) cover a Purchase API, PreAuthorization API, Hosted Payment Page, and webhooks. Registry currently has only 1 SO entry; this is the primary programmatic payment rail for Somali developers.

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