africa.politics.elections
List presidential, parliamentary, and local government elections across all 54 African countries. Returns election scope (presidential/parliamentary/local), status (upcoming/completed/ongoing), dates, and country. Filter by country code, election status, or year range. Use status="upcoming" to fi...
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What africa.politics.elections does on Apibase
AI agents call africa.politics.elections 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
limit | integer | — | Maximum number of elections to return (1–100, default 20). |
status | string | — | Filter by election status: "upcoming" (future elections), "completed" (past elections), or "ongoing" (elections currently in progress). |
end_year | integer | — | Filter elections up to and including this year (e.g. 2025). |
start_year | integer | — | Filter elections from this year onwards (e.g. 2020). |
country_code | string | — | ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code to filter elections to a single country (e.g. "ng", "ke", "za", "eg"). Omit to return elections for all 54 countries. |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why africa.politics.elections is rated Low
Tool retrieves and queries election information without modifying data or triggering external actions.
From the tool's definition List elections, filter by country/status/year, returns election data.
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The rule that runs africa.politics.elections 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.politics.elections, this is the rule to start with:
africa.politics.elections 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.politics.elections call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about africa.politics.elections
List presidential, parliamentary, and local government elections across all 54 African countries. Returns election scope (presidential/parliamentary/local), status (upcoming/completed/ongoing), dates, and country. Filter by country code, election status, or year range. Use status="upcoming" to find upcoming African elections relevant to political risk analysis or investment due diligence. Data sourced from Wikidata and official election commission records. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Apibase MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
africa.politics.elections accepts 5 parameters: limit, status, end_year, start_year, country_code. 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.politics.elections: 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.politics.elections 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.politics.elections 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.politics.elections. 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.politics.elections 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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