Africa / Djibouti · Shipping & Trade

Migrant boat capsizes off Djibouti, at least 139 dead and 84 missing

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Running: 16h
Updated: 1h ago
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Outlets: 5
Regions: 2
Countries: 5
Languages: 4

Merged into Migrant boat capsizes off Djibouti, 139 dead and 84 missing

The Independent United Kingdom · English 11 Oct, 11:22 UTC

The earliest of 2 English reports

Read it also in Dansk (1) · +2 languages

Read at The Independent

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: The Independent, 11 Oct, 11:22 UTC.
Second country: Denmark, with DR.
Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 11 Oct, 11:22 UTC.
Second region: Asia-Pacific, with FNN.
Now: 5 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 5 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

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Asia-Pacific 2 outlets · 2 countries · 40%
Europe 3 outlets · 3 countries · 60%

First movers

The Independent 11 Oct, 11:22 UTC
DR +6m
Tagesschau +7h 7m
FNN +11h 32m
Times of India +14h 31m

The figures

Coverage: 5 outlets in 5 countries, across 2 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 5 outlets, 2 public-service, 3 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Asia-Pacific 2: India, Japan. Europe 3: Denmark, Germany, United Kingdom. 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: Danish, German, English, Japanese.
Timeline: Earliest article The Independent, 11 Oct 2026, 11:22 UTC. First seen 11 Oct 2026, 11:30 UTC. Last seen 12 Oct 2026, 01:54 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, Djibouti. Topic Shipping & Trade. 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 of its own. It was merged into Migrant boat capsizes off Djibouti, 139 dead and 84 missing, and the map counts it only inside that story. 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: Merged into Migrant boat capsizes off Djibouti, 139 dead and 84 missing. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box. A story merged from several was grouped from stories about the same event; each keeps its own headline and page, and the whole story counts every outlet and country once.
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

11 Oct 2026 323 2.70 4 4 4 4 4.7

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Started 11 Oct, 11:30 UTC · Updated 12 Oct, 01:54 UTC

Covered by 5 outlets

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Times of India India 12 Oct, 01:54 UTC
‘Started to sink backwards’: 139 migrants killed as boat capsizes off Djibouti
FNN Japan 11 Oct, 22:55 UTC
ジブチ沖で移民船転覆少なくとも139人死亡・84人行方不明
Tagesschau Germany 11 Oct, 18:29 UTC
Schweres Schiffsunglück am Horn von Afrika fordert mehr als 130 Tote
DR Denmark 11 Oct, 11:29 UTC
Over 100 migranter mister livet i bådforlis
The Independent United Kingdom 11 Oct, 11:22 UTC
'Devastating loss of life' after migrant boat carrying 350 capsizes