Entity

Somalia

A topic on our watch list — we track its coverage across 11 coverage verticals, including Auto, Middle East and South Korea.

As of 5 Nov 2026Last evidence 5 Nov 2026

What is happening now

  • Somali Pirates Hijack an Iranian Dhow as Attacks on Fishing Vessels Mount in 2026

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

  • Somali Disability Journalists Association

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

  • Indian Navy Rescues 20 Crew Members from Iranian Fishing Vessel Hijacked Off Somalia

    Reported claim · first reported 2 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • Somalia: Armed Group Reportedly Hijacks Iranian Fishing Vessel off Puntland Coast

    Reported claim · first reported 31 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • UN political mission ends in Somalia with no agreed replacement to handle election dispute

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

All 6 events and claims involving Somalia

What changed

  • Attention Steady: 30 mentions on 5 Nov 2026, against 31 on 15 Oct 2026 (-3%).
  • State No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 28 Oct 2026.
  • Claims No claim first reported since 4 Nov 2026.

How well we know this

907 documents · 136 publishers · 13% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 5 Nov 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.132: about 87% 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 Somalia

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.

AfricaImmigrationEthiopiaIranSudanUnited StatesTrumpIsraelYemen
  • Africa · 426 shared documents
  • Immigration · 257 shared documents
  • Ethiopia · 214 shared documents
  • UN · 207 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Iran · 191 shared documents
  • Sudan · 191 shared documents
  • United States · 186 shared documents
  • Trump · 180 shared documents
  • Israel · 179 shared documents
  • Yemen · 165 shared documents

Story momentum

Steady

The word compares 30 mentions on 5 Nov 2026 with 31 on 15 Oct 2026 (-3%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +233% from 21 Sept 2026 to 5 Nov 2026, between 3 and 43 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Somalia, day by day.

Market price, cited

Not priced yet

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

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/c689879fb9d9ab673e171f2e returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name somalia.

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  "outlets": 45,
  "domains": 11,
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    "knowledgeCutoff": "2026-11-05T23:35:16.585296+00:00",
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  "coverageTrend": "steady",
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    "changes": 0
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      },
      {
        "level": "not shown",
        "label": "The other 232 mentions",
        "edge": "counted daily from tracked coverage; single mentions are not listed one by one"
      }
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  }
}

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

Events involving Somalia

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.

  • Somali Pirates Hijack an Iranian Dhow as Attacks on Fishing Vessels Mount in 2026

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

    single source

  • Somali Disability Journalists Association

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

    single source

  • Indian Navy Rescues 20 Crew Members from Iranian Fishing Vessel Hijacked Off Somalia

    Reported claim · first reported 2 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Somalia: Armed Group Reportedly Hijacks Iranian Fishing Vessel off Puntland Coast

    Reported claim · first reported 31 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • UN political mission ends in Somalia with no agreed replacement to handle election dispute

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Uganda: Uganda Begins Withdrawing Troops from Somalia After Two Decades

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    corroborated

Walk the record from Somalia

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Somalia

Entity.

Evidence
907 documents · 136 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 25 Jun 2026, last seen 5 Nov 2026
Measured
13% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
5 Nov 2026
16 links from here

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

What is claimed about it (6)

  • 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

Watch this

What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names Somalia, 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.

Markets materially about Somalia

Markets whose question is about Somalia or names it as a party. Each row says how the market relates to Somalia and why. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue.

No open market in the record is materially about Somalia: none names it as the subject of its question or as a party in it.

1 more open market joined to Somalia but not about it
  • 65.5% Yes

    “Will Somali pirates successfully seize a vessel by December 31, 2026?”

    Polymarket · priced 5 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

No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 28 Oct 2026.

Ask about SomaliaWatch Somalia

Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 5 Nov 2026.