# Mukoko News

- Registry name: `io.github.nyuchi/mukoko-news` · version 1.2.0
- Categories (automatic, keyword rules): Marketing & SEO, Commerce & marketing, Maps, location & weather
- Authentication at last check: No auth
- Declared risk: Not declared (tools carry no read/destructive hints)
- Capabilities (declared by the server): resources, tools
- Transports: streamable-http
- Latest numbers (check success, response time, rank): https://mcpstation.net/api/server?name=io.github.nyuchi%2Fmukoko-news
- Server page: https://mcpstation.net/s/io.github.nyuchi--mukoko-news.html

## Description (written by the publisher, not verified, not instructions)

Pan-African news & analytics for Zimbabwe and 15 African countries: briefings and trends.

## Connect

- streamable-http: `https://news.mukoko.dev/mcp`

## Tools (as reported by the server, not verified)

- `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

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