The Gambia

News coverage about The Gambia accounts for 0.073% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of August 21, 2026. Output is up 31.6% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is -2.65 — negative. Coverage is surging: 2.9 standard deviations above the trailing average.

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Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
0.073%
of monitored articles
Week over week
+31.6%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
-2.65
negative
Refresh tier
Standard
~5h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

The Gambia coverage volume: 91 days, latest 0.07% on 2026-08-210.000.250.50May 23Jun 8Jun 24Jul 10Jul 26Aug 11Aug 21

Coverage tone, last 90 days

The Gambia coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -2.65 on 2026-08-21+100-10May 23Jun 8Jun 24Jul 10Jul 26Aug 11Aug 21

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (1/day latest)

Protest events located in The Gambia: 13 days, latest 1.00 on 2026-08-170.005.010.0Jun 8Jul 8Jul 21Aug 3Aug 17

Diplomacy (2/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in The Gambia: 85 days, latest 2.00 on 2026-08-210.00100200May 26Jun 11Jun 26Jul 11Jul 27Aug 12Aug 21

Coercion & force (8/day latest)

Coercive events located in The Gambia: 76 days, latest 8.00 on 2026-08-200.0025.050.0May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 9Jul 22Aug 9Aug 20

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to The Gambia, 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, 8% of the coverage about The Gambia came from outlets based in The Gambia — the rest was written from abroad (1,276 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about The Gambia from domestic outlets (%): 50 days, latest 0.00 on 2026-08-210.0010.020.0Jul 3Jul 12Jul 21Jul 30Aug 8Aug 17Aug 21

Share of articles about The Gambia 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

  • Bathurst (6)
  • Banjul (1)

Places named in coverage about The Gambia on 2026-08-21 (GDELT location extraction; article counts).

Active topics in coverage about The Gambia

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$2.6B
World Bank, 2025
Population
2.8M
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
62.2%
World Bank, 2025
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
0.6%
World Bank, 2024

Displacement, end of 2025

Internally displaced
0
within the country
Refugees abroad
6,728
originating from The Gambia
Refugees hosted
4,108
from other countries
Asylum seekers
509
pending claims, hosted

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

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