Paul Kagame

Paul Kagame appears in roughly 1 monitored articles per day as of October 3, 2026. Mentions are up 62.5% week-over-week. The tone of that coverage averages -1.87 — mildly negative.

Paul Kagame is a Rwandan politician and former military officer who has been the president of Rwanda since 2000. He is considered to be Rwanda's de facto leader since 1994, from 1994 till 2000 while Vice President and Minister of Defence under President Pasteur Bizimungu. 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
+62.5%
7-day mean vs prior
Tone
-1.87
mildly negative

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Paul Kagame mentions per day: 89 days, latest 1.00 on 2026-10-030.0025.050.0Jul 6Jul 21Aug 5Aug 20Sep 5Sep 20Oct 3

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Paul Kagame coverage tone: 88 days, latest tone -1.87 on 2026-10-03+50-5Jul 6Jul 21Aug 5Aug 20Sep 5Sep 21Oct 3

Reader interest (Wikipedia)

Daily Wikipedia pageviews for Paul Kagame: 89 days, latest 844.00 on 2026-10-020.0010002000Jul 6Jul 21Aug 5Aug 20Sep 4Sep 19Oct 2

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”).