Gabon

News coverage about Gabon accounts for 0.017% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of August 20, 2026. Output is up 26.0% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is -2.54 — negative.

GA · GAB · Africa · Wikidata

Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
0.017%
of monitored articles
Week over week
+26.0%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
-2.54
negative
Refresh tier
Standard
~5h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Gabon coverage volume: 91 days, latest 0.02% on 2026-08-200.000.050.10May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Gabon coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -2.54 on 2026-08-20+50-5May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (1/day latest)

Protest events located in Gabon: 3 days, latest 1.00 on 2026-08-050.000.501.0Jun 23Aug 3Aug 5

Diplomacy (5/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Gabon: 43 days, latest 5.00 on 2026-08-170.0050.0100May 28Jun 17Jun 30Jul 16Jul 29Aug 14Aug 17

Coercion & force (3/day latest)

Coercive events located in Gabon: 12 days, latest 3.00 on 2026-07-300.005.010.0May 29Jun 5Jun 20Jul 6Jul 21Jul 25Jul 30

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to Gabon, 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 Gabon came from outlets based in Gabon — the rest was written from abroad (560 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Gabon from domestic outlets (%): 48 days, latest 0.00 on 2026-08-190.000.501.0Jul 3Jul 11Jul 19Jul 27Aug 4Aug 12Aug 19

Share of articles about Gabon 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

  • Libreville (1)

Places named in coverage about Gabon on 2026-08-20 (GDELT location extraction; article counts).

Active topics in coverage about Gabon

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$21.4B
World Bank, 2025
Population
2.6M
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
84.9%
World Bank, 2025
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
1.5%
World Bank, 2024

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