Datasets
MAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand) vs MasakhaNEWS
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Category
Datasets
Datasets
Type
Language / NLP
Language / NLP
Country
🌍 Pan-African
🌍 Pan-African
Docs status
Docs live
Docs live
Licensing
Pricing
Free / open (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Free / CC-BY-NC 4.0
Verified
Unverified
Verified
Last verified
5 Jul 2026
5 Jul 2026
Tags
nlp, african-languages, news, machine-translation, parquet
nlp, african-languages, text-classification, news, topic-classification
Summary
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.
News-topic-classification dataset for 16 widely spoken African languages (incl. Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, Nigerian Pidgin), ~31,088 rows in CSV/Parquet with train/val/test splits across seven topic categories. Built by the Masakhane community.