io.github.nyuchi/mukoko-news · v1.2.0 · search-and-web
Mukoko News is healthy: it completed an MCP handshake in 10678 ms and exposes 16 tools.
Pan-African news & analytics for Zimbabwe and 15 African countries: briefings and trends.
Endpoint: https://news.mukoko.dev/mcp (streamable-http)
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| Users (last 30 days) | 0 |
| Handshake | Healthy |
| Auth needed | None |
| Tool count | 16 |
| Latency | 10678 ms |
| Last checked (UTC) | 2026-10-15T06:15:52.231Z |
| Checked (UTC) | Status | Latency | Error |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-15T06:15:52.231Z | Healthy | 10678 |
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 excerpts with word cou |
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 without leaving the conv |
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; pass article_ids to |
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 clear, running independe |