Entity

Kenya

A topic on our watch list — we track its coverage across 7 domains, including World Wires, Weather Climate and Economic Dev.

As of 8 Oct 2026Last evidence 8 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Kenya: KMPDU Demands Urgent Protection for Health Workers After Kenya Confirms First Ebola Case

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 9 separate publishers

  • A road crash on a highway in Kenya killed at least 17 people, most of them Catholic pilgrims

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

  • Africa’s richest man picks US firm Honeywell for $300 million Kenya refinery deal

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

  • East Africa: Construction of East Africa's $16bn Dangote Refinery Launched in Kenya

    Reported claim · first reported 29 Sept 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • Kenya: Politrack Poll - Ruto 45.1 Percent, Sifuna 19.6 Percent, Kalonzo 10.3 Percent If Elections Held Today

    Reported claim · first reported 26 Sept 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

All 5 events and claims involving Kenya

What changed

  • Attention Kenya has 247 mentions in tracked coverage: too few to measure a trend.
  • State Changes between snapshots: cannot measure, no state history is kept for Kenya yet.
  • Claims No claim first reported since 7 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

704 documents · 152 publishers · 19% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 8 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.19: about 81% of mentions carry no typed assertion

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Kenya

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.

AfricaNigeriaSouth AfricaUgandaImmigrationWhatsAppTanzania
  • Africa · 448 shared documents
  • Nairobi · 231 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Nigeria · 173 shared documents
  • South Africa · 142 shared documents
  • Uganda · 135 shared documents
  • Immigration · 135 shared documents
  • East Africa · 127 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • WhatsApp · 124 shared documents
  • Capital Fm · 114 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Tanzania · 110 shared documents

Kenya has 247 mentions in tracked coverage. That is too few to measure a trend. Watch Kenya to hear when coverage grows, or request deeper coverage of Kenya.

For developers

This page is also an object: GET https://sigb.ai/api/v1/node/e/19905bba175708495c5946dc returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name kenya.

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  "label": "Kenya",
  "asOf": "2026-10-08",
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  "outlets": 51,
  "domains": 7,
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    "schema": "sb.node.v1",
    "rest": "https://sigb.ai/api/v1/node/e/19905bba175708495c5946dc",
    "knowledgeCutoff": "2026-10-08T19:01:28.512480+00:00",
    "snapshot": "this deploy's committed data files (commit not exposed in this runtime)"
  },
  "coverageTrend": "too few mentions to measure",
  "whereFrom": {
    "level": "counts",
    "label": "247 mentions across 7 domains",
    "children": [
      {
        "level": "reports",
        "label": "6 reports drawn on this page, each with its link",
        "children": {
          "count": 6,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "domains",
        "label": "7 coverage domains",
        "children": {
          "count": 7,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "not shown",
        "label": "The other 241 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 Kenya

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.

  • Kenya: KMPDU Demands Urgent Protection for Health Workers After Kenya Confirms First Ebola Case

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 9 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • A road crash on a highway in Kenya killed at least 17 people, most of them Catholic pilgrims

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

    corroborated

  • Africa’s richest man picks US firm Honeywell for $300 million Kenya refinery deal

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

    corroborated

  • East Africa: Construction of East Africa's $16bn Dangote Refinery Launched in Kenya

    Reported claim · first reported 29 Sept 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Kenya: Politrack Poll - Ruto 45.1 Percent, Sifuna 19.6 Percent, Kalonzo 10.3 Percent If Elections Held Today

    Reported claim · first reported 26 Sept 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

Walk the record from Kenya

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Kenya

Entity.

Evidence
704 documents · 152 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 23 Aug 2026, last seen 8 Oct 2026
Measured
19% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
8 Oct 2026
15 links from here

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

What is claimed about it (5)

  • 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 Kenya, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article. Sparse topics can mix unrelated senses of the word.

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