africa.countries.list
List all 54 African countries with ISO codes, capitals, regional classifications, currencies, languages, area, timezone, and border countries. Optionally filter by sub-region: North Africa, West Africa, East Africa, Central Africa, or Southern Africa. Use as a discovery step to get country codes ...
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What africa.countries.list does on Apibase
AI agents call africa.countries.list to retrieve information from Apibase without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
region | string | — | Filter by African sub-region. One of: "North Africa", "West Africa", "East Africa", "Central Africa", "Southern Africa". Omit to return all 54 countries. |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why africa.countries.list is rated Low
Retrieves static reference data about African countries with no side effects or mutations.
From the tool's definition List all 54 African countries with ISO codes, capitals, regional classifications.
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The rule that runs africa.countries.list safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Apibase, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For africa.countries.list, this is the rule to start with:
africa.countries.list is read-only, so it stays allowed. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Apibase, apply this rule, and every africa.countries.list call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about africa.countries.list
List all 54 African countries with ISO codes, capitals, regional classifications, currencies, languages, area, timezone, and border countries. Optionally filter by sub-region: North Africa, West Africa, East Africa, Central Africa, or Southern Africa. Use as a discovery step to get country codes for other Africa API tools. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Apibase MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
africa.countries.list accepts 1 parameter: region. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the Apibase MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for africa.countries.list: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Apibase. Nothing to install.
africa.countries.list is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the africa.countries.list rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for africa.countries.list. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
africa.countries.list is provided by the Apibase MCP server (apibase-mcp-client). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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