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MoneyUnify
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.
Municipal Money (municipal-data)
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.
NaijaVoices Dataset
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
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.
Nyaruka phonenumbers
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
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.
Ona Data (onadata)
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.
Open Banking Nigeria API Standard
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
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 Core
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.
Orange Money MCP Server
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 Money Web Payment API
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.
Participatory Research for Low-resourced Machine Translation: A Case Study in African Languages
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.
PayDunya
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.
Peach Payments
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
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 AICX
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.
Remita
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.
SORMAS
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
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.
SouthAfricanIDValidator
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.
Statistics South Africa Economic Time Series
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.
Sub-Saharan Africa Public Health Facilities Database
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
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.