SAN FRANCISCO, 26 October 2026. Zyaku, the offline-first publishing platform for creators and journalists, with crisis alerts and emergency tools built in, has shipped a set of updates for creators and communities across Africa.

What's new:

Paid in your own country. Creators in Africa now get paid through a Stripe account opened in their own country, where Stripe supports it, and otherwise by bank transfer or Revolut, set up from the creator page. No creator is sent to a US account any more. The same rule now applies worldwide: creators in any country Stripe serves are paid through their own Stripe account, and everywhere else by bank transfer or Revolut.

Nothing extra comes off what creators earn. Zyaku's updated Terms of Service, effective November 9, state that card processing fees come out of Zyaku's own share.

Emergency numbers for every African country, offline. Ask Zyaku's offline assistant for the emergency number in any African country and it answers from a checked list. Where official sources disagree, or a country has no central emergency number, it says so plainly instead of guessing.

More national weather services. Official warnings from the national weather services of Tanzania, Botswana, Gabon, Senegal, Mauritius and Egypt now reach Zyaku's disaster alerts, joining Nigeria, Cameroon and Madagascar. That includes warnings written in French.

Severe warnings reach the whole country straight away. In African countries, a severe warning from the national weather service now goes out across the country at once instead of waiting for review, and the alert says which part of the country it is about.

Safety text in African languages, checked. Zyaku's safety and emergency text in Swahili, Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, Amharic and Zulu now passes the same quality checks as every other language. These translations are machine-made and labelled as such.

"Where you live shouldn't decide whether you get paid, or whether you hear about the storm in time," said Rohit Kashyap, Founder & CEO of Zyaku. "We checked every one of these against official sources before switching it on, and where we couldn't be sure, the app says so."

The updates build on Zyaku's offline-first core: posts written without a connection publish exactly once when the signal returns, and emergency messages wait in a queue the person controls. Zyaku also offers an emergency Medical ID readable from a QR code, I'm Safe check-ins, and an offline map of nearby hospitals and police stations from OpenStreetMap, whose coverage depends on local map data. Zyaku Mesh, which passes short messages from phone to phone, is in testing and not switched on for everyone.

Safety note: Zyaku is not an emergency service. In an emergency, call your local emergency number first.

About Zyaku
Zyaku Inc. is an offline-first publishing platform for creators and journalists, based in San Francisco. Journalists can publish anonymously. Their identity is stored encrypted and is never shown to readers. Founder & CEO: Rohit Kashyap (also Founder, TAMVEL).

Links:
https://zyaku.com
https://zyaku.com/developers/changelog
https://zyaku.com/safety
https://zyaku.com/terms
https://zyaku.com/founder

Media contact: Rohit Kashyap, Founder & CEO, Zyaku Inc., [email protected]