Validator.js: isMobileNumber fail validating new MTN Zambian numbers

[denisbarriere]

Hi there,

First, I wanted to thank you for providing this amazing library that makes a lot of developers life easier!

I built an express API that needs to validate international mobile numbers, including Zambian numbers. I am using the express-validator library which relies on validator.js under the hood.
To ensure the phone numbers received by this API are valid, I am using the following piece of code:

body('mobileNumber')
    .isMobilePhone('any', { strictMode: true })

It works fine, but it does not accept recent Zambia numbers which start with 076 (e.g. [phone])

Could you please help or let me know if this is on the roadmap?

Thanks a lot!

[WillzMu]

Thanks Denis, I am experiencing the same issue.

[dani2819]

Yes, after seeing the current implementation, valid mobile numbers for Zambia are those that start with 95 or 96 or 97.

[ezkemboi]

@denisbarriere, I will check at the issue and will try to fix the same issue.
Also, if there are some resources that show all valid Zambia numbers prefix, you can share.

Thanks.

[meshack-mbuvi]

I can take this issue

[AubreyHewes]

@ezkemboi @profnandaa so this has been fixed by a pr? which has been merged... so this issue can be closed? I don't get the codebase acceptance criteria... I actually don't care anymore, was only looking for adding another/new validation but this would maybe later.

[profnandaa]

Sure.

[WillzMu]

thanks @meshack-mbuvi