Eswatini

News coverage about Eswatini accounts for 0.001% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of August 19, 2026. Output is down 28.2% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is -1.49 — mildly negative.

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Coverage share
0.001%
of monitored articles
Week over week
-28.2%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
-1.49
mildly negative
Refresh tier
Standard
~5h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Eswatini coverage volume: 86 days, latest 0.00% on 2026-08-190.000.030.05May 22Jun 7Jun 22Jul 7Jul 22Aug 8Aug 19

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Eswatini coverage tone: 86 days, latest tone -1.49 on 2026-08-19+200-20May 22Jun 7Jun 22Jul 7Jul 22Aug 8Aug 19

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (1/day latest)

Protest events located in Eswatini: 3 days, latest 1.00 on 2026-07-220.000.501.0Jun 17Jun 27Jul 22

Diplomacy (2/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Eswatini: 23 days, latest 2.00 on 2026-08-190.0010.020.0May 26Jun 12Jun 26Jul 10Jul 29Aug 13Aug 19

Coercion & force (1/day latest)

Coercive events located in Eswatini: 12 days, latest 1.00 on 2026-08-020.005.010.0Jun 12Jun 25Jul 3Jul 10Jul 19Jul 31Aug 2

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to Eswatini, 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 Eswatini came from outlets based in Eswatini — the rest was written from abroad (137 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Eswatini from domestic outlets (%): 4 days, latest 0.00 on 2026-08-040.000.501.0Jul 9Jul 29Aug 3Aug 4

Share of articles about Eswatini 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

  • Mbabane (1)

Places named in coverage about Eswatini on 2026-08-19 (GDELT location extraction; article counts).

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$5.2B
World Bank, 2025
Population
1.3M
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
107.5%
World Bank, 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
1.4%
World Bank, 2024

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