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Africa / Kenya · Energy

Kenyan presidential candidate opposes Dangote's $16bn refinery plan, proposes local refinery

Rank
Running
15h
Updated
7h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
4
Regions
1
Countries
3
Languages
2

Vanguard Nigeria · English 11 Oct, 11:52 UTC

The earliest of 3 English reports

Read it also in Français (1) · +0 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 4 after 16 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Vanguard, 11 Oct, 11:52 UTC.
  2. Second country: Benin, with La Nouvelle Tribune.
  3. Now: 4 outlets.

Where it travelled

16 of 16 hours

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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 4 outlets · 3 countries · 100%

First movers

  1. Vanguard 11 Oct, 11:52 UTC
  2. Punch +1h 28m
  3. La Nouvelle Tribune +6h 24m
  4. Zambian Observer +7h 45m

The figures

Coverage
4 outlets in 3 countries. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 4 outlets, 4 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 3: Benin, Nigeria, Zambia. 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, French.
Timeline
Earliest article Vanguard, 11 Oct 2026, 11:52 UTC. First seen 11 Oct 2026, 12:10 UTC. Last seen 11 Oct 2026, 19:37 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, Kenya. Topic Energy. 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
0.86, as of now. 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
11 Oct 2026 310 2.76 4 3 4 3 4.7

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Started 11 Oct, 12:10 UTC · Updated 19:37 UTC

Covered by 4 outlets

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  • Zambian Observer Zambia 11 Oct, 19:37 UTC
    Kenyan Presidential Aspirant Vows To Stop Dangote’s $16billion Refinery
  • La Nouvelle Tribune Benin 11 Oct, 18:16 UTC
    Raffinerie de Lamu : Dangote reçoit un avertissement d'un ex-militaire candidat à la présidence kényane
  • Punch Nigeria 11 Oct, 13:20 UTC
    Kenyan presidential aspirant opposes Dangote’s $16bn refinery plan
  • Vanguard Nigeria 11 Oct, 11:52 UTC
    ‘Don’t build refinery yet; we can build ours’ – Kenyan presidential candidate tells Dangote
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