African Company Registry Search: 18 Countries

Search official company registries across 18 African countries in one call and get clean, structured records: registration number, legal name, status, entity type, incorporation date, registered address, business activity, tax ID and officers, where the registry publishes them.

Countries: Nigeria (CAC), Ghana, Tanzania (BRELA), Senegal (RCCM), Uganda (URSB), Zambia (PACRA), Malawi, Namibia, Angola, Madagascar, Seychelles, Mauritius, Burkina Faso, and the OHADA registries of Togo, Niger, Gabon, Chad and the Republic of Congo.

What can you use it for?

• KYB and due diligence: confirm an African company is registered, and whether it is active, before you sign, pay or onboard it.
• Supplier and counterparty checks: verify partners across several countries with one input list.
• Pan-African groups: search "ecobank" or "vodacom" across all 18 countries and see every registered entity of the group.
• Lead enrichment: add registration numbers, status and addresses to prospect lists.
• AI agents: call it from your agent through Apify's MCP server to verify entities on the fly.

Input

Field	What it does
mode	search (by name) or lookup (exact registration numbers)
queries	Company names, one search each
country	One country code, or ANY for all 18
maxResultsPerQuery	1 to 100
includeDetails	Adds officers, address and activity for every match
companies	Lookup mode: COUNTRY:REGISTRATION_NO, e.g. NG:208767

Output example

{
  "legal_name": "DANGOTE CEMENT PLC",
  "registration_no": "208767",
  "country": "NG",
  "country_name": "Nigeria",
  "status": "active",
  "entity_type": "Public Limited Company (PLC)",
  "incorporation_date": "1992-11-04",
  "registered_address": "1 ALFRED REWANE ROAD, IKOYI, LAGOS",
  "activity": "Manufacture of other non-metallic material products",
  "registry": "CAC (Corporate Affairs Commission)",
  "confidence_score": 0.9,
  "fylings_url": "https://fylings.com/company/ng/208767/dangote-cement-plc",
  "search_query": "dangote",
  "match_type": "prefix"
}

Fields differ by country, because each registry publishes different data. Some registries publish names and numbers only; others add status, dates, addresses and officers. Every record says which registry it came from and how confident the match is (match_type, match_score, confidence_score).

Pricing

Pay per company returned. Searches with no match cost nothing beyond the run start, and are listed in the FAILURES record of the run's key-value store.

Need more?

For full company profiles, ownership and beneficial-owner data, monitoring and bulk access, see Fylings, the African company intelligence platform behind this actor.