How much of the news here is about each issue today, and how it sounds, compared with the past 4 weeks. From 465 articles by the country’s own news sites over the last 7 days. How we read the news

Share of the coverage

1. Health More than usual Anxious
   6.5% of the news · usually 4.3% · 1.5× usual · 30 articles
   • Kenya's Last Ebola Patient Leaves Hospital (allafrica.com)
   • Mpox: variante de vírus que causou crise na África avança em regiões do Brasil; entenda (globo.com)
2. Cost of living
   2.8% of the news · usually 2.8% · 13 articles
3. AI
   2.2% of the news · usually 1.9% · 10 articles
   • كشف شركة "أنثروبيك" عن عملية ذات علاقة بالذكاء الاصطناعي، غفل عنها صحفيو جمهورية الكونغو الديمقراطية · Global Voices الأصوات العالمية (globalvoices.org)
4. Climate
   1.7% of the news · usually 0.7% · 2.5× usual · 8 articles
   • Skeptical Science New Research for Week #46 2026 (skepticalscience.com)
5. Jobs and work
   1.1% of the news · usually 0.6% · 1.7× usual · 5 articles
6. War and security
   0.4% of the news · usually 0.6% · 2 articles
   • Célébration : l'histoire de l'Angola sur grand écran au mémorial Pierre-Savorgnan-de-Brazza | adiac-congo.com : toute l'actualité du Bassin du Congo (adiac-congo.com)
   • Jaak Ronsijn oudstrijder uit Tollembeek was er ook bij (editiepajot.com)
7. Democracy and elections
   0.2% of the news · usually 1.2% · 1 articles
   • قناة النيل للأخبار | غانا تهزم الصومال 2-0.. والكونغو الديمقراطية تفوز على سيراليون 3-1 فى تصفيات أمم إفريقيا (nile.eg)
   • Congo Beat Sierra Leone 3-1 in AFCON Qualifier (riotimesonline.com)
8. Immigration
   0.0% of the news · usually 0.7% · 0 articles

How the news sounds

• Tone+3.8positive minus negative words per 100usually +3.3The GDELT Project
• Anxiety1.2× usual4.1 words per 1,000usually 3.4The GDELT Project
• Fear1.3× usual0.8 words per 1,000usually 0.6The GDELT Project
• Anger0.9× usual2.1 words per 1,000usually 2.2The GDELT Project
• Sadness1.0× usual9.8 words per 1,000usually 9.4The GDELT Project
• Happiness1.0× usual5.5 words per 1,000usually 5.5The GDELT Project
• Financial uncertainty1.0× usual5.1 words per 1,000usually 4.9The GDELT Project

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