Maritime Piracy
Maritime Piracy accounts for —% of all global news coverage monitored by GDELT as of August 19, 2026. Coverage is down 78.3% week-over-week.
Coverage of maritime piracy and armed robbery against ships.
Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT
Coverage share
—%
of monitored articles
Articles / day
—
matched by GDELT
Week over week
-78.3%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
—
unmeasured
Coverage volume, last 90 days
Coverage tone, last 90 days
Emotional signature
Anxiety-related words per 1,000 words of matching English-language coverage (LIWC dictionaries via GDELT's GCAM). Latest day: 0 anxiety · 3.3 anger · 26.4 positive emotion. Tone says whether coverage reads negative; these say what kind of negative.
Where this coverage comes from
By source country
- Gambia Volume Intensity8.6%
- Niger Volume Intensity8.6%
- Syria Volume Intensity6.6%
- Iraq Volume Intensity6.3%
- Iran Volume Intensity4.3%
- Bangladesh Volume Intensity4.3%
- United Arab Emirates Volume Intensity3.9%
- Australia Volume Intensity3.6%
By language
- Swahili Volume Intensity22.7%
- Somali Volume Intensity7.6%
- Czech Volume Intensity7.0%
- Bulgarian Volume Intensity5.0%
- German Volume Intensity4.9%
- Arabic Volume Intensity4.8%
- Ukrainian Volume Intensity4.4%
- Romanian Volume Intensity4.4%
Share of matching coverage, from GDELT breakdowns (as of 2026-08-19). Tone split: 90.8% of articles read distinctly negative, 1.7% distinctly positive.
Reader interest (Wikipedia)
Daily human pageviews of the topic's English Wikipedia article (Wikimedia Analytics). Coverage measures what the press supplies; this measures what readers seek out. Week-over-week: coverage -78.3%, reader interest -1.7%.
Top recent articles
- عودة القراصنة .. ظل الحرب على إيران — aljazeera.net
- Pirati somali sfruttano la guerra in Iran per tornare attivi — notizie.it
- Uma Nao de piratas | Jornal Económico — jornaleconomico.sapo.pt
- What investing in the Red Sea means for Africa — sandiegosun.com
- What investing in the Red Sea means for Africa — thailandnews.net
- What investing in the Red Sea means for Africa — russiaherald.com
- Піратство біля Сомалі - п ятий напад на судно з квітня - новини світу — zn.ua
- What investing in the Red Sea means for Africa — brazilsun.com
- What investing in the Red Sea means for Africa — sierraleonetimes.com
- What investing in the Red Sea means for Africa — batonrougepost.com
- What investing in the Red Sea means for Africa — shanghainews.net
- إيران توسّع ابتزازها للعالم وواشنطن نحو « الخنق التدريجي » — albayan.ae
- What investing in the Red Sea means for Africa — birminghamstar.com
- What investing in the Red Sea means for Africa — newyorktelegraph.com
- What investing in the Red Sea means for Africa — orlandoecho.com
- Tense Autumn Looms for Greece and Turkey as Maritime Disputes Resurface — iefimerida.gr
- Tense Autumn Looms for Greece and Turkey as Maritime Disputes Resurface — inewsgr.com
- What investing in the Red Sea means for Africa — oklahomacitysun.com
- 43 años navegando para España y más de 730 . 000 millas después , el Infanta Elena pondrá fin a una de las carreras más largas de la Armada — elconfidencialdigital.com
- What investing in the Red Sea means for Africa — azerbaijannews.net
- What investing in the Red Sea means for Africa — africaleader.com
- Outer Banks Season 5 Premieres Tomorrow : Doctors Tested Suspended Animation on Stab Wounds — techtimes.com
- Putin : Kommt er , fallen die Benzinpreise – der Kremlherrscher auf Wahlkampftour — otz.de
- Nach Drohungen - Putin verlegt Kriegsschiff vor deutsche Urlaubsinsel — de.nachrichten.yahoo.com
- Putin : Kommt er , fallen die Benzinpreise – der Kremlherrscher auf Wahlkampftour — braunschweiger-zeitung.de
- Индии и Африке нужны отношения за рамками риторики — ng.ru
- Emirados Árabes Unidos suspendem comércio e operaes financeiras com o Irão — pt.euronews.com
- Yemeni armed forces impose 3 new equation on Saudi Arabia amid maritime blockade — presstv.co.uk
- Somali pirates hijack cargo ship ; regional navies setting up new task force — defenceweb.co.za
- News . de : план мести Путина стал реальностью флот РФ на Балтике вызвал переполох в НАТО — abnews.ru
- Ng Eng Hen conferred Honorary Order of Australia for strengthening Singapore - Australia defence relations — asiaone.com
- Jiří Paroubek : Situace Zelenského vlády je zoufalá | ParlamentniListy . cz – politika ze všech stran — parlamentnilisty.cz
- Transition : Libreville aux côtés de Bissau — union.sonapresse.com
- Transition : Libreville aux côtés de Bissau — union.sonapresse.com
- Olomoucké novinky - Komentáře - Situace Zelenského vlády je zoufalá ! — olomouckenovinky.cz
- Plzeňské novinky - Komentáře - Situace Zelenského vlády je zoufalá ! — plzenskenovinky.cz
- Pardubické novinky - Komentáře - Situace Zelenského vlády je zoufalá ! — pardubickenovinky.cz
- هيئة ملاحة بريطانية : تعرض سفينة شحن لهجوم في البحر الأحمر قبالة اليمن — arabic.people.com.cn
- Turquía adelanta por estribor a grandes productores de megayates europeos : No tienen el tiempo ni el espacio para producir — elconfidencial.com
- Rusko nasadilo fregatu s hypersonickými raketami poblíž německého ostrova v Baltském moři | 19 . 8 . 2026 — blisty.cz
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Frequently asked questions
- How much news coverage is Maritime Piracy receiving right now?
- As of August 19, 2026, coverage matching this topic makes up —% of all articles GDELT monitors worldwide.
- Is media coverage of Maritime Piracy increasing or decreasing?
- Coverage is down 78.3% week-over-week (the mean of the latest 7 days compared with the 7 days before).
- How are these numbers measured?
- Geotone processes the GDELT Project's 15-minute data files every two hours, matching this topic's fixed query against article titles across 65+ languages and aggregating counts and tone by UTC day. Coverage volume is the share of all GDELT-monitored articles matching the topic query; tone is the mean document tone. Full details are on the methodology page.
Methodology: coverage share and tone are computed from GDELT's 15-minute data files and aggregated to UTC days — see how every number is computed. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).