Africa / Democratic Republic of the Congo · Science & Health

DR Congo official killed defending Ebola response

Rank
Ran: 15h
Updated: 4d ago
Closed
Outlets: 3
Regions: 3
Countries: 3
Languages: 1

The Independent United Kingdom · English 30 Sept, 20:50 UTC

The earliest of 3 English reports

The only language so far · English, 3 reports

Read at The Independent

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: The Independent, 30 Sept, 20:50 UTC.
Second country: Qatar, with Al Jazeera.
Second region: Middle East, with Al Jazeera.
Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 1 Oct, 05:18 UTC.
Last article: 3 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 3 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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Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 34%
Europe 1 outlet · 1 country · 33%
Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 33%

First movers

The Independent 30 Sept, 20:50 UTC
Al Jazeera +8h 28m
Africanews +9h 14m

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: DR Congo politician beaten to death after Ebola radio appearance, 28 to 29 Sept 2026, 20 outlets.

The figures

Coverage: 3 outlets in 3 countries, across 3 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 3 outlets, 1 state-owned, 2 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 1: Republic of the Congo. Europe 1: United Kingdom. Middle East 1: Qatar. 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 Independent, 30 Sept 2026, 20:50 UTC. First seen 30 Sept 2026, 21:00 UTC. Last seen 1 Oct 2026, 12:07 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, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Topic Science & health. 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: Continues DR Congo politician beaten to death after Ebola radio appearance. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.

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How this was measured

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Started 30 Sept, 21:00 UTC · Updated 1 Oct, 12:07 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 3 outlets

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Covered by 3 outlets

Africa 1 outlet

Europe 1 outlet

Middle East 1 outlet