Uganda

News coverage about Uganda accounts for 0.037% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of August 20, 2026. Output is down 15.6% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is -0.03 — mildly negative.

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Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
0.037%
of monitored articles
Week over week
-15.6%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
-0.03
mildly negative
Refresh tier
Standard
~5h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Uganda coverage volume: 91 days, latest 0.04% on 2026-08-200.000.250.50May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Uganda coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -0.03 on 2026-08-20+100-10May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (1/day latest)

Protest events located in Uganda: 51 days, latest 1.00 on 2026-08-180.005.010.0May 26Jun 10Jun 24Jul 8Jul 22Aug 6Aug 18

Diplomacy (10/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Uganda: 87 days, latest 10.00 on 2026-08-200.00250500May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 10Jul 25Aug 9Aug 20

Coercion & force (25/day latest)

Coercive events located in Uganda: 86 days, latest 25.00 on 2026-08-190.0050.0100May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 10Jul 25Aug 9Aug 19

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to Uganda, 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, 22% of the coverage about Uganda came from outlets based in Uganda — the rest was written from abroad (3,433 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Uganda from domestic outlets (%): 48 days, latest 23.47 on 2026-08-190.0025.050.0Jul 3Jul 11Jul 19Jul 27Aug 4Aug 12Aug 19

Share of articles about Uganda 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

  • Entebbe (2)
  • Kampala (1)

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

Active topics in coverage about Uganda

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$62.0B
World Bank, 2025
Population
51.4M
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
50.2%
World Bank, 2025
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
1.9%
World Bank, 2024

Armed conflict, trailing 12 months

Conflict fatalities
6
best estimate
Civilian deaths
1
within the above
Recorded events
4
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
0
within the country
Refugees abroad
12,792
originating from Uganda
Refugees hosted
1,936,719
from other countries
Asylum seekers
35,249
pending claims, hosted

Source: UNHCR Refugee Data Finder, year-end 2025 stocks, plus 10,284 stateless persons. IDP figures cover conflict-displaced populations reported to UNHCR.

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