Eswatini

News coverage about Eswatini accounts for 0.004% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of October 4, 2026. Output is down 32.4% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is -5.08 — strongly negative.

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Coverage share
0.004%
of monitored articles
Week over week
-32.4%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
-5.08
strongly negative
Refresh tier
Standard
~5h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Eswatini coverage volume: 85 days, latest 0.00% on 2026-10-040.000.030.05Jul 6Jul 21Aug 7Aug 24Sep 9Sep 24Oct 4

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Eswatini coverage tone: 85 days, latest tone -5.08 on 2026-10-04+100-10Jul 6Jul 21Aug 7Aug 24Sep 9Sep 24Oct 4

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (1/day latest)

Protest events located in Eswatini: 2 days, latest 1.00 on 2026-09-220.000.501.0Jul 22Sep 22

Diplomacy (2/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Eswatini: 19 days, latest 2.00 on 2026-09-250.0010.020.0Jul 6Jul 24Aug 4Aug 19Sep 15Sep 25

Coercion & force (1/day latest)

Coercive events located in Eswatini: 13 days, latest 1.00 on 2026-09-200.005.010.0Jul 7Jul 19Aug 2Aug 28Sep 20

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 (131 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Eswatini from domestic outlets (%): 6 days, latest 0.00 on 2026-10-010.000.501.0Jul 9Jul 29Aug 3Aug 4Sep 23Oct 1

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 2026-10-02 (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”).