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Sudan

News coverage about Sudan accounts for 0.322% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of August 20, 2026. Output is up 37.3% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is -0.65 — mildly negative. Coverage is surging: 3.0 standard deviations above the trailing average.

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Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
0.322%
of monitored articles
Week over week
+37.3%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
-0.65
mildly negative
Refresh tier
Priority
~2-3h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Sudan coverage volume: 91 days, latest 0.32% on 2026-08-200.000.501.0May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Sudan coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -0.65 on 2026-08-20+100-10May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (4/day latest)

Protest events located in Sudan: 44 days, latest 4.00 on 2026-08-190.0010.020.0May 26Jun 9Jun 23Jul 17Aug 1Aug 13Aug 19

Diplomacy (8/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Sudan: 87 days, latest 8.00 on 2026-08-200.00125250May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 10Jul 25Aug 9Aug 20

Coercion & force (8/day latest)

Coercive events located in Sudan: 87 days, latest 8.00 on 2026-08-200.00100200May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 10Jul 25Aug 9Aug 20

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to Sudan, 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, 9% of the coverage about Sudan came from outlets based in Sudan — the rest was written from abroad (4,684 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Sudan from domestic outlets (%): 49 days, latest 0.00 on 2026-08-200.0010.020.0Jul 3Jul 12Jul 21Jul 30Aug 8Aug 17Aug 20

Share of articles about Sudan 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

  • Khartoum (4)
  • Darfur (3)
  • Kordofan (1)
  • El Obeid (1)
  • Tawila (1)
  • Sheikan (1)
  • Omdurman (1)

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

Active topics in coverage about Sudan

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$60.2B
World Bank, 2025
Population
51.7M
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
2.4%
World Bank, 2025
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
0.9%
World Bank, 2021

Armed conflict, trailing 12 months

Conflict fatalities
67,734
best estimate
Civilian deaths
63,127
within the above
Recorded events
615
organized violence

Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP GED), window 2025-08-01..2026-07-31, refreshed monthly. Recent months are preliminary candidate data.

Displacement, end of 2025

Internally displaced
9,139,309
within the country
Refugees abroad
2,820,737
originating from Sudan
Refugees hosted
809,816
from other countries
Asylum seekers
50,147
pending claims, hosted

Source: UNHCR Refugee Data Finder, year-end 2025 stocks. 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 Sudan-based outlets as a share of all GDELT-monitored coverage — see methodology. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).