Mukoko News

Pan-African news, in one place.

"Mukoko" means "Beehive" in Shona — where community gathers and stores knowledge. Mukoko News aggregates news from 100+ sources across all 54 African Union member states, surfacing the stories that matter to the continent.

What is this?

This repository is the Next.js 15 frontend for Mukoko News, deployed on Vercel. It is one part of a three-repo platform:

The frontend reads news data directly from MongoDB Atlas via Next.js Server Actions.

Features

• Pan-African coverage — 54 countries, 100+ sources, updated continuously
• Discover — browse by country, category, or source
• NewsBytes — TikTok-style vertical swipe feed for quick headlines
• Search — full-text search across all articles
• Dark mode — respects system preference
• Embed widgets — drop a news feed into any site with one <script> tag
• MCP server — AI assistants can query Pan-African news at news.mukoko.dev/mcp
• Accessible — Radix UI primitives, WCAG AAA contrast, Schema.org structured data

Contributing

We welcome contributions to the frontend — UI improvements, new features, bug fixes, accessibility, tests, and documentation are all fair game. You do not need a database connection to contribute: all 448 tests run against mocked data, and most UI work can be done with the dev server pointed at the live API.

See CONTRIBUTING.md for the full guide.

Quick start for contributors

# Prerequisites: Node.js 20+, pnpm 10+
git clone https://github.com/nyuchi/mukoko-news.git
cd mukoko-news
pnpm install

# Run the test suite — no credentials needed
pnpm test

# Start the dev server (reads from the live API by default)
cp .env.example .env.local
pnpm dev

Open http://localhost:3000.

What you can work on without credentials

• All React components in src/components/
• Page layouts and routing in src/app/
• The embed widget script in public/embed/
• Any of the 448 unit and integration tests — they all mock the data layer
• Documentation and accessibility improvements

Running tests

pnpm test             # full suite
pnpm test:watch       # watch mode
pnpm test:coverage    # with coverage report

Tech stack

Design system

Nyuchi Brand v6 — African Minerals palette:

Fonts: Noto Serif (headings) + Plus Jakarta Sans (body).

Embed widget

Add a Mukoko News feed to any website:

<script src="https://news.mukoko.com/embed/widget.js"
        data-layout="cards"
        data-feed="latest"
        data-country="ZW">
</script>

Layouts: cards · compact · hero · ticker · list
Feeds: top · featured · latest · location
Country: any ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code (e.g. ZW, KE, ZA, NG)

MCP server

AI assistants and agents can query Pan-African news via the Model Context Protocol:

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

No authentication required. The MCP server lives in nyuchi/mukoko-news-gateway.

Project structure

src/
├── app/              # Pages (Next.js App Router)
├── components/
│   ├── ui/           # Shared components (ArticleCard, Skeleton, ErrorBoundary, …)
│   └── layout/       # Header, footer, mobile nav
├── contexts/         # PreferencesContext, ThemeContext
└── lib/
    ├── actions/      # Server Actions — all database reads go through here
    ├── mongodb/      # MongoDB query helpers
    ├── constants.ts  # Countries, categories, URL utilities
    └── utils.ts      # Formatting + security helpers
public/
└── embed/            # Self-contained widget script

Security

We take security seriously. Report vulnerabilities by email to security@nyuchi.com — please do not open a public GitHub issue. See SECURITY.md for details.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.

"Ndiri nekuti tiri" — I am because we are

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