Africa · Friday, 6 November 2026
Libya
No written brief today: there’s too little data for one, or the draft didn’t pass our checks.
Rising
Breakout
Legohun, CC BY-SA 3.0 Sustained
Photograph: Koen Suyk. In: Nationaal Archief, Den Haag, Rijksfotoarchief: Fotoc…, CC0 Rising
Steffen Schmitz, CC BY-SA 4.0 Sustained
Top today
Breakout
Photograph: Koen Suyk. In: Nationaal Archief, Den Haag, Rijksfotoarchief: Fotoc…, CC0 Rising
Legohun, CC BY-SA 3.0 Sustained
Segolene Liger, CC BY 4.0 Sustained
Steffen Schmitz, CC BY-SA 4.0 Sustained
Seyi vibez, CC BY-SA 4.0 Rising
Eadweard Muybridge, Public domain 8Film
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Wikimedia Commons, Public domain Sustained
Rafael Advanced Defense Systems photographer, CC BY-SA 4.0 10Rafael Advanced Defense Systems
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Everyday apps here: ChatGPT · Claude by Anthropic · Nusuk | نسك · Threema for iOS · MEAM ميم. Apps that top the charts every day. They’re listed after what’s new or in the news.
What the news is talking about
How much of the news here is about each issue today, and how it sounds, compared with the past 4 weeks. From 1,362 articles by the country’s own news sites over the last 7 days. How we read the news
Share of the coverage
- خالد حفتر ينعى شهداء الجيش المصري خلال التصدي لعصابات التنقيب غير المشروع عن الذهب (libyaakhbar.com)
- بيان مشترك لثلاث دول يرفض «مذكرة التفاهم» مع تركيا (libyaakhbar.com)
- وزير الهجرة واللجوء اليوناني ثانوس بليفريس: (libyaakhbar.com)
- عبد النبي وتيتيه يبحثان توحيد المؤسسات واتفاق 4+4 والهجرة في لقاء ببنغازي (libyaakhbar.com)
- Democracy and elections Anxious
- المركز الوطني لمكافحة الأمراض: لا حالات مؤكدة أو مشتبه بها بإيبولا داخل ليبيا (libyaakhbar.com)
- تيتيه تناقش مع نائب تكالة تنفيذ اتفاق الحوار المصغر (libyaakhbar.com)
- What is the Paris climate agreement and why does 1.5C matter? (bbc.co.uk)
- Tri mrtve želve karete v okolici Strunjana: najverjetneje ne gre za naravno smrt (24ur.com)
Survey · 2023 50% Worried about climate change (Climate Change Opinion Survey (Meta, Yale), survey of Facebook users)
How the news sounds
- Tone−1.3positive minus negative words per 100usually −1.0The GDELT Project
- Anxiety1.0× usual4.1 words per 1,000usually 4.3The GDELT Project
- Fear0.9× usual0.3 words per 1,000usually 0.4The GDELT Project
- Anger0.9× usual4.6 words per 1,000usually 5.3The GDELT Project
- Sadness1.0× usual6.3 words per 1,000usually 6.5The GDELT Project
- Happiness1.0× usual5.4 words per 1,000usually 5.4The GDELT Project
- Financial uncertainty1.0× usual9.0 words per 1,000usually 9.2The GDELT Project
News coverage in more than 100 languages, machine-translated and counted with English word lists, from The GDELT Project.
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Issues people are looking up
The top topics in politics, the economy, tech, science, health, climate, education and society that people here read and search about today.
Rafael Advanced Defense Systems photographer, CC BY-SA 4.0 1Rafael Advanced Defense Systems
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Waves of Editing, CC BY-SA 4.0 Conlan Houston, CC BY-SA 4.0 World Economic Forum from Cologny, Switzerland, CC BY-SA 2.0 George Cruikshank [artist]; George Humphrey [publisher], Public domain
By category
Business & economy
Rafael Advanced Defense Systems photographer, CC BY-SA 4.0 1Rafael Advanced Defense Systems
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Cars & transport
1MAPAS: Live Street View & GPS
Falling Everyday app
2Sun Seeker - Tracker & Compass
Everyday app
3Alpin Quest PRO – Outdoor GPS
Everyday app
Nature, climate & disasters
Everyday app
القرآن الكريم كاملا دون انترنتEducation & careers
Everyday app
Everyday app
Everyday app
Fashion & beauty
Everyday app
Everyday app
Food & drink
Everyday app
Everyday app
Health & wellness
George Cruikshank [artist]; George Humphrey [publisher], Public domain 2GymGuide: Workouts & Exercises
Everyday app
Everyday app
Money & crypto
Waves of Editing, CC BY-SA 4.0 2Spendy - Spendings reimagined
Everyday app
Everyday app
Movies & TV
Music
Breakout
Photograph: Koen Suyk. In: Nationaal Archief, Den Haag, Rijksfotoarchief: Fotoc…, CC0 Rising
Politics & world affairs
Conlan Houston, CC BY-SA 4.0 World Economic Forum from Cologny, Switzerland, CC BY-SA 2.0
Travel & places
Legohun, CC BY-SA 3.0 Sustained
Steffen Schmitz, CC BY-SA 4.0 Sustained
Wang-gp, CC BY-SA 4.0
Industries here
Music 69Media & entertainment 5Travel & tourism 4Tech & software 4Advertising & marketing 2Government & public sector 2Fashion & beauty 1Gaming 1Sports & fitness 1AI 1Telecom & internet 1Health & pharma 1Education 1Security & defence 1Nonprofits & NGOs 1
The numbers behind the mood
The latest official figures, with the period each one covers. Yearly numbers can be a year or more old.
Economy
- Inflation1.1%May 2014 · +1.8 pts since Apr 2014World Bank GEM · CC BY 4.0
- Unemployment18.8%2025 · −0.3 pts since 2024World Bank (ILO estimate) · CC BY 4.0
- GDP growth13.4%2025 · +11.5 pts since 2024World Bank · CC BY 4.0
- Youth unemployment50.1%2025 · −0.5 pts since 2024World Bank (ILO estimate) · CC BY 4.0
Research
Most-published fields last month
- Education
- Sociology and Political Science
- Language and Linguistics
Society
- People online82.0%2024 · −0.2 pts since 2023World Bank (ITU) · CC BY 4.0
- Say humans mainly cause climate change28.3%survey of Facebook users2023Meta Data for Good and Yale Program on Climate Change Communication · CC0 (public domain)
- Want climate made a high government priority51.5%survey of Facebook users2023Meta Data for Good and Yale Program on Climate Change Communication · CC0 (public domain)
Charts
Apple Music · Artists
1Andromeda
Breakout
2Smallx
Falling
3Pharrell Williams
4DJ MENOR DA ZN & MC MTOODIO
5Frankys Black
6Brussells Philharmonic & Dirk Brossé
7Adele
Seyi vibez, CC BY-SA 4.0 8Seyi Vibez
Rising
9Tul8te
Breakout
10TRAP MAFIA HOUSE, Nightwhisper & ZeeDND
Breakout
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Apple Music · 2026-11-07
App Store · Free apps
1Nusuk | نسك
2ChatGPT
Rising
3MEAM ميم
Falling
4Presto
5Claude by Anthropic
Breakout
6Google Maps
Falling
7Google Discover
8DramaWave - Dramas & Reels
9CapCut
10Snapchat
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App Store · 2026-11-07
App Store · Paid apps
11 Euro — Paid Nothing App
2Threema for iOS
Falling
3Shadowrocket
Falling
4DSLR Camera
5CamScanner+
6Salatuk - صلاتك
7Category Tabs for Google Keep
8Procreate
9Quran Qaloon An Nafi Offline
10AnkiMobile Flashcards
Show the top 50
App Store · 2026-11-07
Data credits: App Store · Apple Music · Google Trends · Wikipedia. These signals show what people look up, watch, play and buy online. How it works.