Entity

Africa

A topic on our watch list — we track its coverage across 74 coverage verticals, including 3d Printing, Africa and African Economy.

As of 22 Oct 2026Last evidence 22 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Sudan: As Sudan War Spills Into Central African Republic, UN Warns Against Early Peacekeeper Exit

    Reported claim · first reported 21 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Africa: Africa CDC Calls for Urgent Global Support As Nigeria Confirms Ebola Case

    Reported claim · first reported 20 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • Woman, 65, killed in shark attack at South African beach

    Reported claim · first reported 20 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • South Africa's former deputy police chief facing sexual offenses denied bail

    Reported claim · first reported 20 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Carnegie Mellon University Offers Free Artificial Intelligence Certificate for Africa: Apply for the January 2027 Cohort

    Reported claim · first reported 19 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

All 12 events and claims involving Africa

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 326 mentions on 22 Oct 2026, against 57 on 1 Oct 2026 (+472%).
  • State Last recorded change: coverage state went from steady to rising on 22 Oct 2026 (15 changes recorded since 13 Oct 2026).
  • Claims 1 claim first reported since 21 Oct 2026.
  • Market The cited market on “U.S. agrees to a new trade deal with "South Africa" before 2027?” moved from 12% to 7% Yes since 7 Sept 2026 (the market’s own price).

How well we know this

7,286 documents · 491 publishers · 5% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 22 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.053: about 95% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 2 receipts 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 StatesChinaNigeriaAIFrance
  • South Africa · 2,176 shared documents
  • Middle East · 1,441 shared documents
  • Europe · 1,344 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Immigration · 1,249 shared documents
  • UN · 1,169 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • United States · 1,122 shared documents
  • China · 1,108 shared documents
  • Nigeria · 1,034 shared documents
  • AI · 1,001 shared documents
  • France · 978 shared documents

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 326 mentions on 22 Oct 2026 with 57 on 1 Oct 2026 (+472%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +329% from 7 Sept 2026 to 22 Oct 2026, between 41 and 359 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Africa, day by day.

Market price, cited

7% Yes

priced 21 Oct 2026 · relation: named in the question

the market: 12% → 7% Yes (-5pts, from 10 Sept 2026 to 21 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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  "coverageTrend": "rising",
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  }
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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.

  • Sudan: As Sudan War Spills Into Central African Republic, UN Warns Against Early Peacekeeper Exit

    Reported claim · first reported 21 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    single source

  • Africa: Africa CDC Calls for Urgent Global Support As Nigeria Confirms Ebola Case

    Reported claim · first reported 20 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Woman, 65, killed in shark attack at South African beach

    Reported claim · first reported 20 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • South Africa's former deputy police chief facing sexual offenses denied bail

    Reported claim · first reported 20 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Carnegie Mellon University Offers Free Artificial Intelligence Certificate for Africa: Apply for the January 2027 Cohort

    Reported claim · first reported 19 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • South Africa: Four New Mpox Cases Identified in South Africa

    Reported claim · first reported 18 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Crypto exchanges Binance, Coinbase join West Africa scam sweep that flagged $11 million

    Reported claim · first reported 18 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Australia vs South Africa LIVE: Boland takes two wickets in two balls as Australia stun South Africa

    Reported claim · first reported 18 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Ghana set to overtake Ethiopia as Africa’s eighth-largest economy, leading by $1.49 billion in latest IMF projections

    Reported claim · first reported 17 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • South Africa: Masemola Back As Police Commissioner After Ramaphosa Lifts Suspension

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • South African rugby player Hyron ​Andrews dies in France ahead of Champions Cup debut

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • IMF Africa director: Resilient Africa is not immune to headwinds

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

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Africa

Entity.

Evidence
7,286 documents · 491 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 22 Oct 2026
Measured
5% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
22 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.
  • Single source: Reported by one source so far.

Situations it is named in (0)

none on file at this cutoff

For machines: this record as JSON

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What the coverage says

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

2 more headlines 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.

What it connects to

Related records.

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Recorded history

  • 22 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: steady to rising

    Previous state held since 21 Oct 2026

  • 21 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: watch to flagged

    Previous state held since 20 Oct 2026

  • 21 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: insufficient_history to steady

    Previous state held since 20 Oct 2026

  • 20 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: flagged to watch

    Previous state held since 19 Oct 2026

  • 20 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: steady to insufficient_history

    Previous state held since 19 Oct 2026

  • 19 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: watch to flagged

    Previous state held since 18 Oct 2026

  • 19 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: insufficient_history to steady

    Previous state held since 18 Oct 2026

  • 18 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: flagged to watch

    Previous state held since 17 Oct 2026

15 changes recorded since 13 Oct 2026; the newest 8 shown, newest first.

Ask about AfricaWatch Africa

Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 22 Oct 2026.