Chad

News coverage about Chad accounts for 0.159% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of October 4, 2026. Output is steady week-over-week (-1.6%). The average tone of this coverage is +0.56 — neutral-to-positive. Coverage is surging: 5.8 standard deviations above the trailing average.

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Coverage share
0.159%
of monitored articles
Week over week
-1.6%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
+0.56
neutral-to-positive
Refresh tier
Standard
~5h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Chad coverage volume: 91 days, latest 0.16% on 2026-10-040.000.100.20Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Chad coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone 0.56 on 2026-10-04+50-5Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (2/day latest)

Protest events located in Chad: 11 days, latest 2.00 on 2026-10-020.005.010.0Jul 7Jul 13Jul 27Aug 14Aug 21Oct 2

Diplomacy (10/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Chad: 89 days, latest 10.00 on 2026-10-030.0025.050.0Jul 6Jul 21Aug 5Aug 20Sep 4Sep 19Oct 3

Coercion & force (8/day latest)

Coercive events located in Chad: 84 days, latest 8.00 on 2026-10-030.0025.050.0Jul 7Jul 21Aug 5Aug 19Sep 3Sep 20Oct 3

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to Chad, 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 Chad came from outlets based in Chad — the rest was written from abroad (1,833 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Chad from domestic outlets (%): 90 days, latest 0.00 on 2026-10-030.000.501.0Jul 6Jul 21Aug 5Aug 20Sep 4Sep 19Oct 3

Share of articles about Chad 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

  • Ndjamena (2)

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

Active topics in coverage about Chad

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$21.5B
World Bank, 2025
Population
21.0M
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
46.1%
World Bank, 2025
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
3.0%
World Bank, 2024

Armed conflict, trailing 12 months

Conflict fatalities
227
best estimate
Civilian deaths
50
within the above
Recorded events
24
organized violence

Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP GED), window 2025-10-01..2026-09-30, refreshed monthly. Recent months are preliminary candidate data.

Displacement, end of 2025

Internally displaced
219,595
within the country
Refugees abroad
15,281
originating from Chad
Refugees hosted
1,502,263
from other countries
Asylum seekers
9,371
pending claims, hosted

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

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