{"data":[{"slug":"global-2026-08-24","scope":"global","date":"2026-08-24","headline":"Global Risk Briefing, August 24, 2026: coverage of DR Congo Conflict is surging","bodyMd":"Geotone's daily reading of the world's news coverage for August 24, 2026, computed from GDELT signals across 42 tracked topics and 197 countries.\n\n## Surging coverage\n\n\n- Coverage of [DR Congo Conflict](https://geotone.news/topics/drc-conflict) is running 14.3 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.013% of all monitored articles.\n\n- Coverage of [Sanctions](https://geotone.news/topics/sanctions) is running 4.5 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.213% of all monitored articles.\n\n- Coverage of [Food Security](https://geotone.news/topics/food-security) is running 3.2 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.023% of all monitored articles.\n\n- Coverage of [Disinformation](https://geotone.news/topics/disinformation) is running 2.1 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.032% of all monitored articles.\n\n- Coverage of [Sudan Civil War](https://geotone.news/topics/sudan-civil-war) is running 2.0 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.005% of all monitored articles.\n\n## Notable movers\n\n\n- Coverage of [Trade War & Tariffs](https://geotone.news/topics/trade-war) rose 496.3% week-over-week.\n\n- Coverage of [Sanctions](https://geotone.news/topics/sanctions) rose 472.9% week-over-week.\n\n- Coverage of [Maritime Piracy](https://geotone.news/topics/piracy) rose 248.4% week-over-week.\n\n- Coverage of [Myanmar Civil War](https://geotone.news/topics/myanmar-civil-war) rose 179.2% week-over-week.\n\n- Coverage of [DR Congo Conflict](https://geotone.news/topics/drc-conflict) rose 157.6% week-over-week.\n\n## Most covered today\n\n\n- [Trade War & Tariffs](https://geotone.news/topics/trade-war): 0.245% of global coverage.\n\n- [Sanctions](https://geotone.news/topics/sanctions): 0.213% of global coverage.\n\n- [Iran War & Succession](https://geotone.news/topics/iran-war-succession): 0.14% of global coverage.\n\n- [Israel–Gaza](https://geotone.news/topics/israel-gaza): 0.104% of global coverage.\n\n- [Energy Security](https://geotone.news/topics/energy-security): 0.05% of global coverage.\n\n## Where the press reads darkest\n\n\n- [Guinea](https://geotone.news/countries/gn): average tone -5.86.\n\n- [Central African Republic](https://geotone.news/countries/cf): average tone -4.48.\n\n- [Marshall Islands](https://geotone.news/countries/mh): average tone -4.39.\n\n- [Somalia](https://geotone.news/countries/so): average tone -4.08.\n\n- [Antigua and Barbuda](https://geotone.news/countries/ag): average tone -3.80.\n\n\n*Every figure above is computed from GDELT coverage data as described in the [methodology](https://geotone.news/methodology). Derived data is CC BY 4.0 — cite \"Geotone / GDELT\".*","generator":"template","publishedAt":"2026-08-24T06:00:07.583Z"}],"meta":{"license":"CC BY 4.0","licenseUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Geotone / GDELT","source":"https://geotone.news","docs":"https://geotone.news/api-docs","generated":"2026-10-04T10:20:58.305Z"}}