💧 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:

Code

"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

Tool	Type	Description
`get_drought_status`	Read-only	Current NDMA drought phase for a county
`get_county_water_stress`	Read-only	Water stress index, rainfall deficit, river levels
`get_drought_alerts`	Read-only	All counties at or above a given drought phase
`sms_drought_alert`	Destructive	Send drought alert SMS via Africa's Talking

Install

Terminal

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

Configure

config.json

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

Data sources

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

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

IP & Collaboration

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.

Terminal

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.

Wapimaji MCP README