# afriref /v1/changes – Pan-African Government Reference Data Change Feed

> afriref /v1/changes – Pan-African Government Reference Data Change Feed is a paid API for AI agents from afriref.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns a list of changes to African government reference data series (central-bank rates, VAT, minimum wages, public holidays) since a specified date, with citations to official sources.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://afriref.dev/v1/changes
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/afriref-v1-changes-pan-african-government-reference-data-change-feed-1a75c3b4
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Xz4kHdMvRGt4641g8jElI

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability afriref-v1-changes-pan-african-government-reference-data-change-feed-1a75c3b4
```

Example prompt: Show me all Pan-African government reference data that changed since July 1 2026 — I need to know if any minimum wage, VAT, or central-bank policy rate was updated for any of the covered countries.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a curated, citation-backed changelog of African government reference data (rates, wages, holidays) rather than scraping individual government websites. It is ideal for compliance workflows, payroll systems, fintech dashboards, or regulatory monitoring tools that cover Côte d'Ivoire, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, or Uganda.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or missing 'since' date parameter returns an error
- Unsupported country code returns empty or error response
- Data not yet updated for very recent events may return stale flag
- Network timeout if upstream government sources are unreachable
- Payment failure via x402 protocol returns 402 status before data is delivered

## How this service works

Authoritative Pan-African government reference values as clean JSON: central-bank policy rates, VAT rates, national minimum wages and public holidays for Côte d'Ivoire (ci), Egypt (eg), Ethiopia (et), Ghana (gh), Kenya (ke), Morocco (ma), Nigeria (ng), Rwanda (rw), Senegal (sn), Tanzania (tz), Uganda (ug). Every value carries a citation to its official primary source (government gazette or central-bank statement), an effective date, a last-confirmed date and a staleness flag.

## Output

A JSON object with a 'since' date and a 'changes' array; each change entry includes the data series name (e.g. minimum-wage, vat-rate, policy-rate, public-holiday), the ISO country code, and the effective_from date — all traceable to official government or central-bank primary sources.

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "since": "2026-07-01",
  "changes": [
   {
    "series": "minimum-wage",
    "country": "AR",
    "effective_from": "2026-07-01"
   }
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

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