Africa / Tanzania · Politics

Tanzania removes extra visa clearance for Nigerian citizens

Rank
Ran: 42h
Updated: 5d ago
Closed
Outlets: 5
Regions: 1
Countries: 4
Languages: 1

The Citizen Tanzania · English 28 Sept, 08:21 UTC

The earliest of 5 English reports

The only language so far · English, 5 reports

Read at The Citizen

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: The Citizen, 28 Sept, 08:21 UTC.
Second country: Kenya, with Tuko.
Second region: International, with AllAfrica.
Last article: 5 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 4 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

80%20%

Africa 4 outlets · 3 countries · 80%
International 1 outlet · 20%

First movers

The Citizen 28 Sept, 08:21 UTC
Tuko +7h 24m
Punch +32h 19m
Vanguard +37h 35m
AllAfrica +45h 3m

The figures

Coverage: 5 outlets in 4 countries. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 5 outlets, 5 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 3: Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania. International 1: the outlets that publish from no single country, counted as one. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: English.
Timeline: Earliest article The Citizen, 28 Sept 2026, 08:21 UTC. First seen 28 Sept 2026, 11:20 UTC. Last seen 30 Sept 2026, 05:25 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region Africa, Tanzania. Topic Politics. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain: Continued by Tanzania removes Nigeria from referral visa category. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
Day by day: Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method

29 Sept 2026 334 3.68 4 3 2 1 3.3 → 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 28 Sept, 11:20 UTC · Updated 30 Sept, 05:25 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 5 outlets

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Africa 4 outlets

Vanguard Nigeria 29 Sept, 21:56 UTC
Tanzania removes special visa clearance for Nigerians
Punch Nigeria 29 Sept, 16:40 UTC
Tanzania eases entry visa rules for Nigerians
Tuko Kenya 28 Sept, 15:45 UTC
Tanzania scraps extra visa clearance for Africa's most populous country
The Citizen Tanzania 28 Sept, 08:21 UTC
Tanzania removes extra visa clearance for Nigerians

International 1 outlet

AllAfrica International 30 Sept, 05:25 UTC
Tanzania: Tanzania Removes Special Visa Clearance for Nigerians