Rwanda

News coverage about Rwanda accounts for 0.05% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of October 4, 2026. Output is down 18.8% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is +0.63 — neutral-to-positive.

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Data updated: · refreshed every 3 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
0.05%
of monitored articles
Week over week
-18.8%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
+0.63
neutral-to-positive
Refresh tier
Priority
~2-3h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Rwanda coverage volume: 91 days, latest 0.05% on 2026-10-040.000.100.20Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Rwanda coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone 0.63 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 Rwanda: 21 days, latest 1.00 on 2026-09-300.002.55.0Jul 23Aug 3Aug 12Sep 4Sep 16Sep 30

Diplomacy (8/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Rwanda: 90 days, latest 8.00 on 2026-10-030.00100200Jul 6Jul 21Aug 5Aug 20Sep 4Sep 19Oct 3

Coercion & force (2/day latest)

Coercive events located in Rwanda: 77 days, latest 2.00 on 2026-10-030.0025.050.0Jul 6Jul 21Aug 6Aug 21Sep 5Sep 22Oct 3

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to Rwanda, 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, 4% of the coverage about Rwanda came from outlets based in Rwanda — the rest was written from abroad (2,574 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Rwanda from domestic outlets (%): 90 days, latest 4.92 on 2026-10-030.0010.020.0Jul 6Jul 21Aug 5Aug 20Sep 4Sep 19Oct 3

Share of articles about Rwanda 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

  • Kigali (3)

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

Active topics in coverage about Rwanda

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$16.4B
World Bank, 2025
Population
14.6M
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
56.7%
World Bank, 2025
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
1.2%
World Bank, 2024

Displacement, end of 2025

Internally displaced
0
within the country
Refugees abroad
244,415
originating from Rwanda
Refugees hosted
115,794
from other countries
Asylum seekers
15,251
pending claims, hosted

Source: UNHCR Refugee Data Finder, year-end 2025 stocks, plus 14,500 stateless persons. IDP figures cover conflict-displaced populations reported to UNHCR.

Monitored relationships

Each link opens the bilateral co-coverage dashboard for the pair.

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