How much news coverage is Sudan Civil War receiving right now?

As of August 20, 2026, coverage matching this topic makes up 0.003% of all articles GDELT monitors worldwide, roughly 1 articles per day.

Is media coverage of Sudan Civil War increasing or decreasing?

Coverage is down 8.1% week-over-week (the mean of the latest 7 days compared with the 7 days before).

What is the tone of news coverage about Sudan Civil War?

The average GDELT tone of matching coverage is -6.58, which reads as strongly negative. Tone typically ranges from about -10 (very negative) to +10 (very positive).

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.

Sudan Civil War

Sudan Civil War accounts for 0.003% of all global news coverage monitored by GDELT as of August 20, 2026 (1 matched articles/day). Coverage is down 8.1% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is -6.58 — strongly negative.

Coverage of Sudan's civil war between the army and the Rapid Support Forces, including Darfur, displacement, and famine.

Data updated: August 20, 2026 · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Coverage share

0.003%

of monitored articles

Articles / day

matched by GDELT

Week over week

-8.1%

7-day mean vs prior

Average tone

-6.58

strongly negative

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: 4.7 anxiety · 18.7 anger · 25.7 positive emotion. Tone says whether coverage reads negative; these say what kind of negative.

Where this coverage comes from

By language

English100.0%

Share of matching coverage, from GDELT breakdowns (as of 2026-08-20). Tone split: 100% of articles read distinctly negative, 0% distinctly positive.

In focus by country

Sudan (179)

Countries where Sudan Civil War coverage concentrates — each links to the stories and headlines for that intersection.

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 -8.1%, reader interest -2.6%.

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“[The] situation in Juba is made to be fragile by certain elements so that people live in fear. ... Let me assure the people of Juba and people of South Sudan in general there is no fear, don’t rely on all this nonsense that you read in social media.”
FalseVOA · 2025-03-11

Via the Google Fact Check Tools API; ratings are the fact-checkers' own.

Frequently asked questions

How much news coverage is Sudan Civil War receiving right now?: As of August 20, 2026, coverage matching this topic makes up 0.003% of all articles GDELT monitors worldwide, roughly 1 articles per day.
Is media coverage of Sudan Civil War increasing or decreasing?: Coverage is down 8.1% week-over-week (the mean of the latest 7 days compared with the 7 days before).
What is the tone of news coverage about Sudan Civil War?: The average GDELT tone of matching coverage is -6.58, which reads as strongly negative. Tone typically ranges from about -10 (very negative) to +10 (very positive).
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”).