Burundi

News coverage about Burundi accounts for 0.138% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of October 4, 2026. Output is up 70.7% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is +3.02 — positive. Coverage is surging: 3.3 standard deviations above the trailing average.

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Coverage share
0.138%
of monitored articles
Week over week
+70.7%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
+3.02
positive
Refresh tier
Standard
~5h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Burundi coverage volume: 91 days, latest 0.14% on 2026-10-040.000.100.20Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Burundi coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone 3.02 on 2026-10-04+50-5Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (1/day latest)

Protest events located in Burundi: 3 days, latest 1.00 on 2026-09-250.005.010.0Jul 9Aug 6Sep 25

Diplomacy (15/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Burundi: 68 days, latest 15.00 on 2026-10-030.0050.0100Jul 7Jul 23Aug 11Aug 26Sep 10Sep 25Oct 3

Coercion & force (1/day latest)

Coercive events located in Burundi: 39 days, latest 1.00 on 2026-10-030.005.010.0Jul 7Jul 18Aug 5Sep 2Sep 10Sep 30Oct 3

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to Burundi, counted daily from GDELT's event stream (protests: root 14; diplomacy: 04–05; coercion through mass violence: 17–20).

Coverage origin: local vs international

Over the last two weeks, 0% of the coverage about Burundi came from outlets based in Burundi — the rest was written from abroad (1,099 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Burundi from domestic outlets (%): 82 days, latest 0.00 on 2026-10-040.000.501.0Jul 6Jul 24Aug 10Aug 26Sep 9Sep 23Oct 4

Share of articles about Burundi produced by domestic outlets, computed daily across GDELT's English and translated streams. Outlet home countries are mapped per news domain (GDELT source-country data); articles from unmapped outlets are excluded from the denominator. A very low share during major events can mean the story is being told about a place rather than from it.

Most-mentioned places

  • Kamenge (1)

Places named in coverage about Burundi on 2026-10-04 (GDELT location extraction; article counts).

Active topics in coverage about Burundi

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$3.4B
World Bank, 2025
Population
14.4M
World Bank, 2025
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
3.8%
World Bank, 2024

Armed conflict, trailing 12 months

Conflict fatalities
31
best estimate
Civilian deaths
29
within the above
Recorded events
28
organized violence

Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP GED), window 2025-10-01..2026-09-30, refreshed monthly. Recent months are preliminary candidate data.

Displacement, end of 2025

Internally displaced
6,815
within the country
Refugees abroad
318,291
originating from Burundi
Refugees hosted
110,800
from other countries
Asylum seekers
1,466
pending claims, hosted

Source: UNHCR Refugee Data Finder, year-end 2025 stocks, plus 734 stateless persons. IDP figures cover conflict-displaced populations reported to UNHCR.

Coverage share measures articles published by Burundi-based outlets as a share of all GDELT-monitored coverage — see methodology. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).