Global Risk Briefing, August 25, 2026: coverage of Haiti Crisis is surging

Geotone's daily reading of the world's news coverage for August 25, 2026, computed from GDELT signals across 42 tracked topics and 197 countries.

Surging coverage

• Coverage of Haiti Crisis is running 38.8 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.096% of all monitored articles.

• Coverage of Arctic Security is running 17.1 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.036% of all monitored articles.

• Coverage of Food Security is running 12.2 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.078% of all monitored articles.

• Coverage of Peacekeeping is running 8.9 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.036% of all monitored articles.

• Coverage of Taiwan Strait is running 7.3 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.057% of all monitored articles.

Notable movers

• Coverage of Sanctions rose 1512.2% week-over-week.

• Coverage of Haiti Crisis rose 1289.7% week-over-week.

• Coverage of Trade War & Tariffs rose 556.8% week-over-week.

• Coverage of Maritime Piracy rose 552.5% week-over-week.

• Coverage of Food Security rose 342.6% week-over-week.

Most covered today

• Trade War & Tariffs: 0.804% of global coverage.

• Sanctions: 0.318% of global coverage.

• Haiti Crisis: 0.096% of global coverage.

• Food Security: 0.078% of global coverage.

• Terrorism: 0.069% of global coverage.

Where the press reads darkest

• Haiti: average tone -6.09.

• Malta: average tone -5.98.

• Libya: average tone -5.54.

• Kiribati: average tone -5.20.

• Kosovo: average tone -4.39.

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".