Entity

Congo

A topic on our watch list — we track its coverage across 5 coverage verticals, including World Wires, Weather Climate and Microplastics.

As of 19 Oct 2026Last evidence 19 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Ebola outbreak in DR Congo spreads to new province bordering CAR

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

  • Africa CDC says over $700 million in Ebola response funds unaccounted for in Congo

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

All 2 events and claims involving Congo

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 36 mentions on 19 Oct 2026, against 32 on 28 Sept 2026 (+12%).
  • State No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 9 Oct 2026.
  • Claims No claim first reported since 18 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

623 documents · 129 publishers · 5% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 19 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.047: 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 Congo

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.

AfricaEbolaImmigrationKenyaUnited StatesNigeriaUganda
  • Dr Congo · 440 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Africa · 423 shared documents
  • Ebola · 160 shared documents
  • Immigration · 152 shared documents
  • Kenya · 144 shared documents
  • United States · 142 shared documents
  • UN · 136 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Nigeria · 128 shared documents
  • Uganda · 119 shared documents
  • Rwanda · 104 shared documents · no page of its own yet

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 36 mentions on 19 Oct 2026 with 32 on 28 Sept 2026 (+12%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +800% from 4 Sept 2026 to 19 Oct 2026, between 3 and 41 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Congo, day by day.

Market price, cited

Not priced yet

No open prediction market prices a question materially about Congo yet. Ask about Congo

No market price on file: no prediction market prices a question about this name yet

Coverage volume and market price are separate measures.

For developers

This page is also an object: GET https://sigb.ai/api/v1/node/e/914200da30bb90602eba0da6 returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name congo.

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  "domains": 5,
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    "knowledgeCutoff": "2026-10-19T15:50:53.270508+00:00",
    "snapshot": "this deploy's committed data files (commit not exposed in this runtime)"
  },
  "coverageTrend": "rising",
  "history": {
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    "changes": 0
  },
  "whereFrom": {
    "level": "counts",
    "label": "71 mentions across 5 domains",
    "children": [
      {
        "level": "reports",
        "label": "6 reports drawn on this page, each with its link",
        "children": {
          "count": 6,
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        }
      },
      {
        "level": "domains",
        "label": "5 coverage domains",
        "children": {
          "count": 5,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "not shown",
        "label": "The other 65 mentions",
        "edge": "counted daily from tracked coverage; single mentions are not listed one by one"
      }
    ]
  }
}

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

Events involving Congo

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.

  • Ebola outbreak in DR Congo spreads to new province bordering CAR

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

    single source

  • Africa CDC says over $700 million in Ebola response funds unaccounted for in Congo

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

    single source

Walk the record from Congo

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Congo

Entity.

Evidence
623 documents · 129 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 3 Sept 2026, last seen 19 Oct 2026
Measured
5% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
19 Oct 2026
12 links from here

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

What is claimed about it (2)

  • 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

Watch this

What the coverage says

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

What it connects to

Related records.

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Recorded history

No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 9 Oct 2026.

Ask about CongoWatch Congo

Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 19 Oct 2026.