Paul Kagame

Paul Kagame appears in roughly 1 monitored articles per day as of August 19, 2026. Mentions are up 83.3% week-over-week. The tone of that coverage averages -2.94 — negative.

Paul Kagame is a Rwandan politician and former military officer who has been the president of Rwanda since 2000. He was previously considered Rwanda's de facto leader between 1994 and 2000, while Vice President and Minister of Defence under President Pasteur Bizimungu, until assuming the Presidency in 2000. He was previously a commander of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), a rebel armed force which invaded Rwanda in 1990. The RPF was one of the main belligerents of the Rwandan Civil War and was the armed force which ended the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

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Articles / day
1
mentioning this entity
Week over week
+83.3%
7-day mean vs prior
Tone
-2.94
negative

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Paul Kagame mentions per day: 89 days, latest 1.00 on 2026-08-190.00100200May 22Jun 6Jun 22Jul 7Jul 22Aug 6Aug 19

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Paul Kagame coverage tone: 89 days, latest tone -2.94 on 2026-08-19+100-10May 22Jun 6Jun 22Jul 7Jul 22Aug 6Aug 19

Reader interest (Wikipedia)

Daily Wikipedia pageviews for Paul Kagame: 89 days, latest 1065.00 on 2026-08-180.0010002000May 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”).