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Africa / Democratic Republic of the Congo · Conflict & Security

Military plane crashes in DR Congo, kills 17 officials

Rank
Ran
46h
Updated
8d ago
Final
Outlets
41
Regions
5
Countries
32
Languages
16

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Where it travelled

The 32 countries whose press covered it; when each joined is no longer held. Open the live map

The regions

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  • Africa 6 outlets · 6 countries · 15%
  • Americas 5 outlets · 4 countries · 12%
  • Asia-Pacific 7 outlets · 6 countries · 17%
  • Europe 12 outlets · 9 countries · 29%
  • Middle East 11 outlets · 7 countries · 27%

The figures

Coverage
41 outlets in 32 countries, across 5 regions. The article links are no longer held: they lasted a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 41 outlets, 3 state-owned, 4 public-service, 34 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 6: Algeria, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia. Americas 4: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Uruguay. Asia-Pacific 6: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Taiwan. Europe 9: Belgium, Greece, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Sweden. Middle East 7: Israel, Lebanon, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates. 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
Arabic, Greek, English, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Indonesian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Chinese.
Timeline
Earliest article SABC News, 25 Sept 2026, 16:44 UTC. First seen 25 Sept 2026, 17:10 UTC. Last seen 27 Sept 2026, 16:04 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 Conflict & security. 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
23.34, at the end of the last day measured. 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.
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
25 Sept 2026 215 5.48 7 5 7 5 3.3
26 Sept 2026 8 41.79 38 30 30 26 3.3
27 Sept 2026 30 23.34 41 32 5 5 3.3

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How this was measured

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Started 25 Sept, 17:10 UTC · Updated 27 Sept, 16:04 UTC

Covered by 41 outlets

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Africa 6 outlets

  • Echorouk Algeria
  • Radio Okapi Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • SABC News South Africa
  • Tuko Kenya
  • Vanguard Nigeria
  • Zambian Observer Zambia

Americas 5 outlets

  • CTV News Canada
  • El País (UY) Uruguay
  • Estadão Brazil
  • Infobae Argentina
  • Metrópoles Brazil

Asia-Pacific 7 outlets

  • Daily Times Pakistan
  • Detik Indonesia
  • Khaama Press Afghanistan
  • Liberty Times Taiwan
  • The Business Standard Bangladesh
  • The Hindu India
  • Times of India India

Europe 12 outlets

  • Adevărul Romania
  • Aftonbladet Sweden
  • Blic Serbia
  • ERT Greece
  • Het Laatste Nieuws Belgium
  • Kommersant Russia
  • NOS Netherlands
  • Onet Poland
  • RMF24 Poland
  • RTP Portugal
  • Vedomosti Russia
  • Wirtualna Polska Poland

Middle East 11 outlets

  • Al Ittihad United Arab Emirates
  • Al Jazeera Qatar
  • An-Nahar Lebanon
  • Arab News Saudi Arabia
  • Asharq News Saudi Arabia
  • Cumhuriyet Turkey
  • Gulf News United Arab Emirates
  • Israel Hayom (he) Israel
  • SANA Syria
  • Sözcü Turkey
  • The Jerusalem Post Israel

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