Entity · moving across domains

Africa

A topic on our watch list — we track its coverage across 75 domains, including Africa, African Economy and AI Policy.

As of 13 Oct 2026Last evidence 13 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • South Africa: South Africa-Born Navanethem "Navi" Pillay Wins 2026 Nobel Peace Prize

    Reported event · first reported 9 Oct 2026 · 2 claims · best-carried claim: 12 separate publishers

  • Lightning strikes twice for Steve Smith with Australia on top of South Africa in Durban

    Reported claim · first reported 11 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • US-MEPI Tomorrow’s Leaders Program 2027/2028 for undergraduate & graduate Students from the Middle East and North Africa (Fully Funded)

    Reported claim · first reported 9 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Samsung South Africa Graduate Program 2027 for young South African graduates.

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • South Africa: Home Affairs Withdraws Asylum Directive After Violent Anti-Immigration Protests

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

All 11 events and claims involving Africa

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 305 mentions on 13 Oct 2026, against 268 on 22 Sept 2026 (+14%).
  • State Changes between snapshots: cannot measure, no state history is kept for Africa yet.
  • Claims No claim first reported since 12 Oct 2026.
  • Market The cited market on “U.S. agrees to a new trade deal with "South Africa" before 2027?” moved from 12% to 10% Yes since 29 Aug 2026 (the market’s own price).

How well we know this

5,671 documents · 452 publishers · 22% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 13 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.216: about 78% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 1 receipt withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Africa

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

South AfricaMiddle EastImmigrationUnited StatesChinaNigeriaIsraelAI
  • South Africa · 1,727 shared documents
  • Middle East · 1,120 shared documents
  • Europe · 1,042 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Immigration · 979 shared documents
  • UN · 938 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • United States · 891 shared documents
  • China · 881 shared documents
  • Nigeria · 822 shared documents
  • Israel · 771 shared documents
  • AI · 755 shared documents

Story momentum

Rising

Daily mentions +221% from 29 Aug 2026 to 13 Oct 2026, between 41 and 359 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Africa, day by day.

Market price, cited

10% Yes

priced 10 Oct 2026 · relation: named in the question

the market: 12% → 10% Yes (-2pts, from 29 Aug 2026 to 10 Oct 2026)

on “U.S. agrees to a new trade deal with "South Africa" before 2027?”

The day’s closing price on this market, and how it moved. The number is the market’s own. Ask about Africa

“U.S. agrees to a new trade deal with "South Africa" before 2027?”: the market's own price; the venue link is not stored with it

Coverage volume and market price are separate measures.

For developers

This page is also an object: GET https://sigb.ai/api/v1/node/e/055b624d3df957c91c3f34bc returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name africa.

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The figures on this page, as data. The tool returns the full entity record.

Events involving Africa

Most-reported first, then newest. Registered events come from the event record; reported events are groups of claims about one occurrence. Claims are grouped when they were first reported within 2 days of each other and either name at least 2 of the same people, places or things besides this one, or share at least 25% of their wording. Each claim keeps its own record.

  • South Africa: South Africa-Born Navanethem "Navi" Pillay Wins 2026 Nobel Peace Prize

    Reported event · first reported 9 Oct 2026 · 2 claims · best-carried claim: 12 separate publishers

    Show the 2 individual claims
    • South Africa: South Africa-Born Navanethem "Navi" Pillay Wins 2026 Nobel Peace Prize · corroborated · first reported 9 Oct 2026 · 12 separate publishers
    • South Africa: Navi Pillay's Nobel Peace Prize Is a Vote of Confidence in a Global Legal Order Under Fire · corroborated · first reported 9 Oct 2026 · 5 separate publishers

  • Lightning strikes twice for Steve Smith with Australia on top of South Africa in Durban

    Reported claim · first reported 11 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • US-MEPI Tomorrow’s Leaders Program 2027/2028 for undergraduate & graduate Students from the Middle East and North Africa (Fully Funded)

    Reported claim · first reported 9 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Samsung South Africa Graduate Program 2027 for young South African graduates.

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • South Africa: Home Affairs Withdraws Asylum Directive After Violent Anti-Immigration Protests

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • OpenAI Hires Ismail Elmas From SpaceX to Lead Sales in Europe, Middle East and Africa

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • MITCHELL JOHNSON: Combined Australia-South Africa Test XI from players who played Test cricket from 1981

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • West Africa: Russia-Ukraine Conflict Finds New Battleground in Africa's Sahel

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • The University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program 2027 for African healthcare professionals (Fully Funded)

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Mastercard and Tamatem Partner to Expand Gaming Payments Across Middle East and Africa

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • African Union launches continent’s first credit rating agency to counter what it says is bias inflating borrowing costs

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

Walk the record from Africa

Open where it comes from, follow a claim or a related name, and use the trail to come back. Every step says what it is, how it stands and when. Machines read the same record.

Africa

Entity.

Evidence
5,671 documents · 452 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 14 Apr 2026, last seen 13 Oct 2026
Measured
22% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
13 Oct 2026
22 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (12)

  • Corroborated: Reported by three or more sources that did not copy each other.
  • Reported by two: Reported by two sources that did not copy each other.

Situations it is named in (0)

none on file at this cutoff

For machines: this record as JSON

Watch this

What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names Africa, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

1 more headline counted but not shown: no source link on file

Evidence tiers: primary source = an official public record · attributed = a named outlet, receipt linked · lead = observed, not yet receipted.

Other markets materially about Africa

Markets whose question is about Africa or names it as a party. Each row says how the market relates to Africa and why. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue.

No other open market in the record is materially about Africa: none names it as the subject of its question or as a party in it.

1 more open market joined to Africa but not about it
  • 64.6% Yes

    “Will South African inflation be greater than 5.0% in 2026?”

    Polymarket · priced 13 Oct 2026

    Relation: mentioned only in passing · the name does not appear as a word in the question; the record joined it another way · closes 31 Dec 2026

What it connects to

Related records.

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Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 13 Oct 2026.