Rwanda

News coverage about Rwanda accounts for 0.037% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of August 20, 2026. Output is down 33.9% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is -0.44 — mildly negative.

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Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
0.037%
of monitored articles
Week over week
-33.9%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
-0.44
mildly negative
Refresh tier
Priority
~2-3h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Rwanda coverage volume: 91 days, latest 0.04% on 2026-08-200.000.130.25May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Rwanda coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -0.44 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 Rwanda: 18 days, latest 1.00 on 2026-08-130.002.55.0Jun 2Jun 11Jun 26Jul 29Aug 3Aug 11Aug 13

Diplomacy (1/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Rwanda: 87 days, latest 1.00 on 2026-08-200.00100200May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 10Jul 25Aug 9Aug 20

Coercion & force (1/day latest)

Coercive events located in Rwanda: 78 days, latest 1.00 on 2026-08-200.0025.050.0May 26Jun 9Jun 22Jul 6Jul 21Aug 6Aug 20

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, 3% of the coverage about Rwanda came from outlets based in Rwanda — the rest was written from abroad (1,671 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Rwanda from domestic outlets (%): 48 days, latest 2.33 on 2026-08-190.005.010.0Jul 3Jul 11Jul 19Jul 27Aug 4Aug 12Aug 19

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 (29)
  • Kivu (6)
  • Huye (2)
  • Musanze (2)
  • Rutsiro (1)
  • Karongi (1)
  • Gikondo (1)
  • Gisagara (1)
  • Gasabo District (1)
  • Kinyinya (1)
  • Gicumbi (1)
  • Gakenke (1)

Places named in coverage about Rwanda on 2026-08-19 (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”).