Global Risk Briefing, September 23, 2026: coverage of Refugees & Displacement is surging

Geotone's daily reading of the world's news coverage for September 23, 2026, computed from GDELT signals across 42 tracked topics and 197 countries.

Surging coverage

• Coverage of Refugees & Displacement is running 18.1 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.069% of all monitored articles.

• Coverage of Terrorism is running 3.5 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.141% of all monitored articles.

• Coverage of Myanmar Civil War is running 2.8 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.003% of all monitored articles.

• Coverage of Disinformation is running 2.4 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.049% of all monitored articles.

• Coverage of Arctic Security is running 2.2 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.026% of all monitored articles.

Notable movers

• Coverage of Peacekeeping rose 360.5% week-over-week.

• Coverage of Sanctions rose 338.5% week-over-week.

• Coverage of Arms Deals rose 319.6% week-over-week.

• Coverage of Defense Spending rose 283.2% week-over-week.

• Coverage of Arctic Security rose 281.8% week-over-week.

Most covered today

• Terrorism: 0.141% of global coverage.

• NATO: 0.077% of global coverage.

• Refugees & Displacement: 0.069% of global coverage.

• Ukraine War: 0.061% of global coverage.

• Disinformation: 0.049% of global coverage.

Where the press reads darkest

• Mozambique: average tone -7.70.

• Mali: average tone -5.45.

• Central African Republic: average tone -3.65.

• Afghanistan: average tone -3.61.

• Democratic Republic of the Congo: average tone -2.83.

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".