African Union

African Union appears in roughly 1,962 monitored articles per day as of August 20, 2026. Mentions are up 30.9% week-over-week. The tone of that coverage averages -1.33 — mildly negative.

The African Union (AU) is a continental union of 55 member states located on the continent of Africa. The AU was announced in the Sirte Declaration in Sirte, Libya, on 9 September 1999, calling for the establishment of the African Union. The bloc was launched on 9 July 2002 in Durban, South Africa. The intention of the AU was to replace the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), established on 25 May 1963 in Addis Ababa by 32 signatory governments; the OAU was disbanded on 9 July 2002. The most important decisions of the AU are made by the Assembly of the African Union, a semi-annual meeting of the heads of state and government of its member states. The African economy is regionally integrated through this union.

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Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Articles / day
1,962
mentioning this entity
Week over week
+30.9%
7-day mean vs prior
Tone
-1.33
mildly negative

Coverage volume, last 90 days

African Union mentions per day: 91 days, latest 1962.00 on 2026-08-200.001250025000May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Coverage tone, last 90 days

African Union coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -1.33 on 2026-08-20+20-2May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Reader interest (Wikipedia)

Daily Wikipedia pageviews for African Union: 89 days, latest 748.00 on 2026-08-180.0012502500May 22Jun 6Jun 21Jul 6Jul 21Aug 5Aug 18

Daily human pageviews of the entity's English Wikipedia article (Wikimedia Analytics). Coverage above measures what the press SUPPLIES; this measures what readers DEMAND — divergence between the two is its own signal.

Mentions counted via a quoted-name query against the GDELT DOC API, aggregated to UTC days — see methodology. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).