Entity

Africa

A topic on our watch list — we track its coverage across 66 coverage verticals, including Africa, African Economy and Agriculture Food.

As of 24 Oct 2026Last evidence 24 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • South Africa Proposes New Crypto Rules to Tighten Cross-Border Capital Controls

    Reported claim · first reported 23 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • Africa: UN Agencies Appeal for Help to Protect Weakest From Unprecedented El Niño

    Reported claim · first reported 22 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Foreign citizen beaten to death during march in South Africa as anti-immigrant tensions flare

    Reported claim · first reported 22 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

  • Africa: Nigeria's First Ebola Patient Is Diplomat's Wife Who Holidayed in Uganda - Africa CDC

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

  • Orient Beach, South Africa: Janine Lochrenberg killed in shark attack during daily swim as tributes flow

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

All 12 events and claims involving Africa

What changed

  • Attention Steady: 322 mentions on 24 Oct 2026, against 307 on 3 Oct 2026 (+5%).
  • State Last recorded change: coverage state went from rising to steady on 24 Oct 2026 (16 changes recorded since 13 Oct 2026).
  • Claims 1 claim first reported since 23 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 9 Sept 2026 (the market’s own price).

How well we know this

7,709 documents · 503 publishers · 5% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 24 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.053: about 95% 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 StatesChinaNigeriaFranceAIUnited Kingdom

Story momentum

Steady

The word compares 322 mentions on 24 Oct 2026 with 307 on 3 Oct 2026 (+5%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +46% from 9 Sept 2026 to 24 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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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 Proposes New Crypto Rules to Tighten Cross-Border Capital Controls

    Reported claim · first reported 23 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Africa: UN Agencies Appeal for Help to Protect Weakest From Unprecedented El Niño

    Reported claim · first reported 22 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Foreign citizen beaten to death during march in South Africa as anti-immigrant tensions flare

    Reported claim · first reported 22 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Africa: Nigeria's First Ebola Patient Is Diplomat's Wife Who Holidayed in Uganda - Africa CDC

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

    reported by two

  • Orient Beach, South Africa: Janine Lochrenberg killed in shark attack during daily swim as tributes flow

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

    corroborated

  • What to know about Ebola outbreak that has spread from Congo to multiple African countries

    Reported claim · first reported 20 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • A former South Africa deputy police chief facing sexual offense charges is denied bail

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

    reported by two

  • African health ministers to hold Ebola crisis talks as Nigeria confirms first case

    Reported claim · first reported 20 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 6 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • The University of Edinburgh Mastercard Foundation on-campus and online postgraduate Scholars Program 2027/2028 for young Africans (Fully Funded)

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

    reported by two

  • South Africa: Hundreds of Children Fall Ill After Tshwane Fails to Chlorinate Water

    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

  • 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

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Africa

Entity.

Evidence
7,709 documents · 503 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 24 Oct 2026
Measured
5% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
24 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

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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.

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

  • 24 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: rising to steady

    Previous state held since 22 Oct 2026

  • 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

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

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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 24 Oct 2026.