Boko Haram

Boko Haram appears in roughly 6 monitored articles per day as of August 19, 2026. Mentions are up 5.5% week-over-week. The tone of that coverage averages -2.84 — negative.

Boko Haram, officially known as Jama'at Ahl al-Sunna li al-Da'wa wa al-Jihad (JAS) and sometimes referred to as its state name Daular Musulunci, is a jihadist militant organisation based in northeastern Nigeria and also active in Chad, Niger, northern Cameroon, and Mali.

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)

Wikidata

Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Articles / day
6
mentioning this entity
Week over week
+5.5%
7-day mean vs prior
Tone
-2.84
negative

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Boko Haram mentions per day: 50 days, latest 6.00 on 2026-08-190.0025.050.0Jun 2Jul 10Jul 19Jul 28Aug 6Aug 15Aug 19

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Boko Haram coverage tone: 50 days, latest tone -2.84 on 2026-08-19+200-20Jun 2Jul 10Jul 19Jul 28Aug 6Aug 15Aug 19

Reader interest (Wikipedia)

Daily Wikipedia pageviews for Boko Haram: 89 days, latest 1064.00 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”).