Entity

Africa

A topic on our watch list — we track its coverage across 86 coverage verticals, including 3d Printing, Africa and African Economy.

As of 12 Nov 2026Last evidence 11 Nov 2026

What is happening now

  • Tatjana Smith’s switch to the Netherlands is a bitter blow for South African sport

    Reported claim · first reported 11 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • Africa: CAF President Dr Patrice Motsepe Congratulates Nigeria's 'Flamingos' Following Their Historic Qualification to the Final of the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup Morocco 2026

    Reported claim · first reported 5 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • Africa: COP31 - What Nigeria, Other African Countries Will Push for At UN Climate Summit

    Reported claim · first reported 5 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 6 separate publishers

  • South Africa’s ANC is humbled by its worst election results as it continues its decline

    Reported claim · first reported 5 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

  • Dangote Breaks Ground on $2.5 Billion Namibia Fuel Hub for Southern Africa

    Reported claim · first reported 4 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

All 12 events and claims involving Africa

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 356 mentions on 12 Nov 2026, against 326 on 22 Oct 2026 (+9%).
  • State Last recorded change: coverage state went from steady to rising on 12 Nov 2026 (12 changes recorded since 5 Nov 2026).
  • Claims 1 claim first reported since 11 Nov 2026.
  • Market The cited market on “U.S. agrees to a new trade deal with "South Africa" before 2027?” moved from 8% to 9% Yes since 28 Sept 2026 (the market’s own price).

How well we know this

10,924 documents · 587 publishers · 6% say something specific about it · last evidence 11 Nov 2026

  • Gap: 6% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
  • 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 StatesNigeriaChinaFranceNorthern Marian…AI

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 356 mentions on 12 Nov 2026 with 326 on 22 Oct 2026 (+9%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +34% from 28 Sept 2026 to 12 Nov 2026, between 56 and 384 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Africa, day by day.

Market price, cited

9% Yes

priced 10 Nov 2026 · relation: named in the question

the market: 8% → 9% Yes (+1pts, from 28 Sept 2026 to 10 Nov 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.

  • Tatjana Smith’s switch to the Netherlands is a bitter blow for South African sport

    Reported claim · first reported 11 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Africa: CAF President Dr Patrice Motsepe Congratulates Nigeria's 'Flamingos' Following Their Historic Qualification to the Final of the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup Morocco 2026

    Reported claim · first reported 5 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Africa: COP31 - What Nigeria, Other African Countries Will Push for At UN Climate Summit

    Reported claim · first reported 5 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 6 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • South Africa’s ANC is humbled by its worst election results as it continues its decline

    Reported claim · first reported 5 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Dangote Breaks Ground on $2.5 Billion Namibia Fuel Hub for Southern Africa

    Reported claim · first reported 4 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • South Africa: South Africans Head to Polls to Elect Local Government Leaders

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

    corroborated

  • South Africa: U.S. to Drop South Africa, Rwanda from AGOA Duty-Free Trade Initiative

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

    corroborated

  • ANC faces bruising defeat in South African local elections with 80% of ballots counted

    Reported claim · first reported 2 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Africa: UK Open to Formal Apology for Britain's Slave Trade Role, Rejects Reparations

    Reported claim · first reported 31 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Ghana secures Russia’s support for 2,000 MW Nuclear plant as Mahama deepens military ties with Putin

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Africa: Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games - Kenya on Top, Madagascar on Podium, Senegal Looks to Future

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Who benefits more from the Russia - Africa partnership? (Africanews Debates )

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

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
10,924 documents · 587 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 11 Nov 2026
Measured
6% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
12 Nov 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.

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.

2 more open markets joined to Africa but not about it
  • 13% Yes

    “Will the South African Reserve Bank increase the repo rate by 50+ bps at the March meeting?”

    Polymarket · priced 12 Nov 2026

    Relation: mentioned only in passing · the name does not appear as a word in the question; the record joined it another way · close date not stated in the question

  • 33.7% Yes

    “Will South African inflation be between 4.7% and 5.0% in 2026?”

    Polymarket · priced 12 Nov 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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Recorded history

  • 12 Nov 2026

    coverage state changed: steady to rising

    Previous state held since 10 Nov 2026

  • 10 Nov 2026

    coverage state changed: rising to steady

    Previous state held since 9 Nov 2026

  • 9 Nov 2026

    wire tier changed: watch to flagged

    Previous state held since 8 Nov 2026

  • 9 Nov 2026

    coverage state changed: insufficient_history to rising

    Previous state held since 8 Nov 2026

  • 8 Nov 2026

    wire tier changed: flagged to watch

    Previous state held since 7 Nov 2026

  • 8 Nov 2026

    coverage state changed: rising to insufficient_history

    Previous state held since 7 Nov 2026

  • 7 Nov 2026

    wire tier changed: watch to flagged

    Previous state held since 6 Nov 2026

  • 7 Nov 2026

    coverage state changed: insufficient_history to rising

    Previous state held since 6 Nov 2026

12 changes recorded since 5 Nov 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 12 Nov 2026.