How much of the news here is about each issue today, and how it sounds, compared with the past 4 weeks. From 278 articles by the country’s own news sites over the last 7 days. How we read the news

Share of the coverage

1. War and security
   9.0% of the news · usually 9.9% · 25 articles
   • Bénin : L'opération Mirador change de commandement - (africalog.com)
2. Immigration
   2.2% of the news · usually 1.1% · 2.1× usual · 6 articles
3. Democracy and elections
   1.1% of the news · usually 1.3% · 3 articles
   • Moldova, pe locul 77 în clasamentul democrației: doar 16% dintre țări au democrații depline (ziarulnational.md)
   • Akufo-Addo to Lead ECOWAS Election Observation Mission to Nigeria’s January 2027 Polls – Ghanamma.com (ghanamma.com)
4. AI
   0.7% of the news · usually 1.6% · 2 articles
   • Bénin : Sèdami Medegan Fagla obtient un accord avec la Chine sur l'IA – La Nouvelle Tribune (lanouvelletribune.info)
   • Election: Police declare war on AI-generated fake news (punchng.com)
5. Jobs and work
   0.4% of the news · usually 0.5% · 1 articles
6. Climate
   0.0% of the news · usually 0.3% · 0 articles

   Survey · 2023 75% Worried about climate change (Climate Change Opinion Survey (Meta, Yale), survey of Facebook users)

7. Cost of living
   0.0% of the news · usually 0.2% · 0 articles
8. Health
   0.0% of the news · usually 0.7% · 0 articles

How the news sounds

• Tone−1.0positive minus negative words per 100usually −0.8The GDELT Project
• Anxiety1.1× usual2.5 words per 1,000usually 2.3The GDELT Project
• Fear1.0× usual0.4 words per 1,000usually 0.4The GDELT Project
• Anger1.3× usual6.2 words per 1,000usually 4.7The GDELT Project
• Sadness0.8× usual4.0 words per 1,000usually 4.7The GDELT Project
• Happiness1.0× usual5.4 words per 1,000usually 5.3The GDELT Project
• Financial uncertainty0.9× usual6.1 words per 1,000usually 6.8The GDELT Project

News coverage in more than 100 languages, machine-translated and counted with English word lists, from The GDELT Project.