Mukoko News

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Uptime

80.0%

Response time

2.8 s typical, 3.5 s slowest 5%

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How to call it

Add it to any MCP client that supports remote servers.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mukoko-news": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://news.mukoko.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

16 tools

• get_briefing

  Answer "What's happening in [place/topic]?" — top story, recent articles, and trending topics in one call. Accepts country codes (ZW, KE), region names (East Africa, Southern Africa), category topics (politics, business), or omit focus for a pan-African overview. Returns short ex

• track_story

  Follow the development of a news story over time. Returns articles in chronological order showing how a story evolved. Use since to control the lookback window.

• get_location_news

  News from a specific place in Africa. Accepts country codes, country names, region names, or city names.

• compare_locations

  Compare news coverage between 2–4 African countries or regions side by side.

• get_source_view

  See how a specific news source is covering a topic.

• find_stories

  Search articles by keyword, tag, category, or country. Results carry short excerpts, word counts, and app links only — call get_article with a result's id to read the full article body inline.

• get_article

  Read a single article by ID or slug. Returns the full article body inline as markdown (truncated at ~8000 characters with a link to continue in the app) plus source metadata and the Mukoko app URL. Use this after a list tool (get_briefing, find_stories, …) to read an article with

• list_categories

  List all news categories with article counts.

• list_sources

  List active news sources. Optionally filter by country code.

• get_stats

  Platform statistics: total articles, active sources, and today's output.

• get_my_feed

  Personalised news feed based on the authenticated user's article likes and saves. Requires Authorization: Bearer <WorkOS access token>.

• get_trending_analytics

  Open analytics: trending topics, categories, keywords, and sources for any location or period. Part of Mukoko's open data policy.

• detect_surge

  Detect sudden spikes in news coverage — compares last 24h against 7-day baseline. Surfaces unusual increases like crime up 5× in Bulawayo or a football surge in Ghana.

• get_content_analytics

  Open data breakdown of news coverage by category, country, and keyword for a given period.

• trigger_enrichment

  Manually run the AI enrichment agent over existing articles (classification, keywords, entities, quality scoring). RESTRICTED to platform-team accounts — requires a WorkOS bearer token issued inside the platform-team org. By default enriches the most recent un-enriched articles;

• drain_enrichment_backlog

  Drain the ENTIRE un-enriched article backlog, not just one batch. RESTRICTED to platform-team accounts (WorkOS bearer issued inside the platform-team org). Fire-and-forget: asks the pipeline worker to enrich un-enriched articles in batches (oldest first) until the backlog is clea

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