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Africa · Friday, 6 November 2026

RwandaLimited data

No written brief today: there’s too little data for one, or the draft didn’t pass our checks.


Rising

  1. Icebox, CC BY 3.0

    1Lil Baby

    Breakout

    Music · Apple Music · #4 in songs

  2. Frank Schwichtenberg, CC BY-SA 4.0

    2Future

    Rising

    Music · Apple Music · #23 in songs

  3. Thealfe Studios, CC BY-SA 4.0

    3Rema

    Rising

    Music · Apple Music · #1 in songs

  4. 4FOLA

    Rising

    Music · Apple Music · #37 in songs


Top today

  1. Icebox, CC BY 3.0

    1Lil Baby

    Breakout

    Music · Apple Music · #4 in songs

  2. Thealfe Studios, CC BY-SA 4.0

    2Rema

    Rising

    Music · Apple Music · #1 in songs

  3. 3FOLA

    Rising

    Music · Apple Music · #37 in songs

  4. Frank Schwichtenberg, CC BY-SA 4.0

    4Future

    Rising

    Music · Apple Music · #23 in songs

  5. Mensah Memories, CC BY 3.0

    5Asake

    Falling

    Music · Apple Music · #2 in songs

  6. 6DJ Maphorisa

    Weekly

    Music · Apple Music · #6 in songs

  7. Plus TV Africa, CC BY 3.0

    7Blaqbonez

    Falling

    Music · Apple Music · #7 in songs

  8. Muhammed amine benloulou, CC BY-SA 4.0

    8Wizkid

    Music · Apple Music · #12 in songs

  9. 9Victony

    Falling

    Music · Apple Music · #13 in songs

  10. J24N, CC BY-SA 4.0

    10Tiakola

    Music · Apple Music · #16 in songs


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 1,826 articles that mention the country over the last 7 days. How we read the news

Share of the coverage

  1. Health More than usual
    7.2% of the news · usually 1.4% · 5.1× usual · 132 articles
  2. 3.6% of the news · usually 17.6% · 66 articles
  3. 2.4% of the news · usually 1.6% · 44 articles
  4. 1.9% of the news · usually 2.3% · 35 articles
  5. 1.0% of the news · usually 0.8% · 19 articles
  6. 0.8% of the news · usually 1.2% · 14 articles
  7. 0.7% of the news · usually 0.2% · 2.9× usual · 12 articles
  8. 0.3% of the news · usually 0.1% · 1.9× usual · 5 articles

How the news sounds

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

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By category

Music

  1. Icebox, CC BY 3.0

    1Lil Baby

    Breakout

    Apple Music · #4 in songs

  2. Thealfe Studios, CC BY-SA 4.0

    2Rema

    Rising

    Apple Music · #1 in songs

  3. 3FOLA

    Rising

    Apple Music · #37 in songs

Celebrities & creators

  1. 1Bien-Aimé Baraza

    Apple Music · #30 in songs

  2. 2Mauvais Djo

    Falling

    Apple Music · #73 in songs

Sports

  1. HOTSPOTATL, CC BY 3.0

    1J. Cole

    Apple Music · #69 in songs


Industries here

Music 38Sports & fitness 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

Research

Most-published fields last month

  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
    29 papers · rising +44%
  • Management Science and Operations Research
    17 papers · rising +508%
  • Global and Planetary Change
    13 papers · rising +55%

OpenAlex

    Society


    Charts

    Apple Music · Artists

    1. Thealfe Studios, CC BY-SA 4.0

      1Rema

      Rising

    2. Mensah Memories, CC BY 3.0

      2Asake

      Falling

    3. Icebox, CC BY 3.0

      4Lil Baby

      Breakout

    4. 6DJ Maphorisa

      Falling

    5. Plus TV Africa, CC BY 3.0

      7Blaqbonez

      Falling

    Apple Music · 2026-11-07


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