Africa · Thursday, 12 November 2026
Zimbabwe
No written brief today: there’s too little data for one, or the draft didn’t pass our checks.
Rising
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Top today
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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 605 articles by the country’s own news sites over the last 7 days. How we read the news
Share of the coverage
- Caine Prize finds 'no evidence' winning story was AI-generated (newzimbabwe.com)
- Caine Prize finds no AI use in Zimbabwean's winning story (punchng.com)
How the news sounds
- Tone−0.8positive minus negative words per 100usually −0.7The GDELT Project
- Anxiety1.0× usual2.9 words per 1,000usually 3.0The GDELT Project
- Fear0.7× usual0.4 words per 1,000usually 0.5The GDELT Project
- Anger1.0× usual5.5 words per 1,000usually 5.5The GDELT Project
- Sadness0.9× usual5.6 words per 1,000usually 6.0The GDELT Project
- Happiness1.0× usual5.4 words per 1,000usually 5.4The GDELT Project
- Financial uncertainty1.0× usual7.7 words per 1,000usually 7.4The 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.
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By category
Business & economy
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Sports
Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0 Timmy96, CC0 Christian Bellgardt, CC BY 3.0
Industries here
Music 47Sports & fitness 3Tech & software 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
- Unemployment9.3%2025 · −0.1 pts since 2024World Bank (ILO estimate) · CC BY 4.0
- GDP growth8.1%2025 · +6.4 pts since 2024World Bank · CC BY 4.0
- Youth unemployment15.5%2025 · +0.1 pts since 2024World Bank (ILO estimate) · CC BY 4.0
Society
- People online41.6%2024 · +3.0 pts since 2023World Bank (ITU) · CC BY 4.0
Charts
Apple Music · Artists
1Hulengende
2Sane Wav
4DJ Zinhle, Nayvee Womculo & Young Stunna
9Shona Prince
Apple Music · 2026-11-13
Data credits: Apple Music · Wikipedia. These signals show what people look up, watch, play and buy online. How it works.