💧 WapiMaji MCP — Kenya Water & Drought Intelligence

Compatible with claude-sonnet-5 (released 2026-06-30) — Anthropic's most agentic Sonnet yet. Runs multi-step tool chains end-to-end without stopping short. Install: pip install wapimaji-mcp · Use with any MCP client.

MCP server giving AI agents real-time access to Kenya's water stress and drought data — all 47 counties, NDMA drought phase classifications, and SMS alert capability via Africa's Talking.

What it does

WapiMaji MCP exposes Kenya drought and water stress data as MCP tools. Any Claude, GPT-4, or MCP-compatible AI agent can now:

• Query live drought phase data for any of Kenya's 47 counties
• Get water stress indices from NDMA drought monitor
• Send SMS alerts to farmers via Africa's Talking when drought levels spike

One-prompt examples:

"What is the current drought phase in Marsabit County?"
→ Gets NDMA Phase 3 classification + rainfall deficit data

"Which counties are in drought emergency right now?"
→ Returns all counties at Phase 3+ with population affected

"SMS these 500 Garissa farmers: drought phase has escalated to 3"
→ Sends alerts via Africa's Talking across Safaricom + Airtel

Tools

Install

pip install wapimaji-mcp
# or:
uvx wapimaji-mcp

Configure

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "wapimaji": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["wapimaji-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "AT_USERNAME": "your_username",
        "AT_API_KEY": "your_at_key",
        "SANDBOX": "true"
      }
    }
  }
}

Data sources

Runtime safety and data limits

SANDBOX=true (the default) uses simulated county drought values, including aggregate alerts. These values are not observations from NDMA. Live aggregate alerts are not implemented and return an explicit error with unknown status.

SMS calls in sandbox return sent: false without contacting Africa's Talking. Live SMS requires both SANDBOX=false and confirm_send=true, supplied only after the user explicitly confirms that send. Provider acceptance does not establish delivery to the recipient.

• NDMA — National Drought Management Authority drought phase classifications
• Kenya Meteorological Department — rainfall data
• FEWS NET — Famine Early Warning System food security projections

Related

• mpesa-mcp — M-Pesa + Africa's Talking MCP server
• WapiMaji — The Streamlit dashboard version
• gabrielmahia.github.io — Full civic portfolio

IP & Collaboration

© 2026 Gabriel Mahia · contact@aikungfu.dev License: MIT Not affiliated with NDMA or Africa's Talking.

Data Sources

This server draws on open and public domain datasets for drought intelligence:

Open Government Data (Public Domain)

• NASA MODIS NDVI — vegetation index for drought early warning
• NOAA CHIRPS — daily rainfall estimates (0.05° resolution)
• NASA TRMM — monthly precipitation
• USDA FEWS NET — East Africa livelihood zones

Historical Baseline Data (Public Domain)

• East Africa Meteorological Records 1900-1940 (colonial era, PD)
• Kew Gardens East Africa Survey 1910 (botanical PD)

These are structured in africa-open-climate-data and east-africa-agricultural-pd.

Part of the East Africa Coordination Stack

This MCP server is one of 32 tools in the Kenya coordination infrastructure. Connect it to africa-coord-bus — the coordination event bus that routes signals between domains automatically.

pip install africa-coord-bus

All 32 servers: pypi.org/user/gmahia Live demo: coord-cascade-demo

Part of the East Africa coordination stack

• Install & run: pip install reli-cli && reli list — 33 MCP servers on the official MCP Registry under io.github.gabrielmahia
• Evaluate any model on Swahili agent tasks: kipimo · dataset · leaderboard
• Coordinate across servers: africa-coord-bus — offline-first event bus with a built-in Kenya routing table
• Datasets: huggingface.co/gmahia · Docs hub: nairobi-stack

Model-agnostic by design: closed APIs, open-weight models, and small distilled models are all first-class citizens.