Africa / Kenya · Energy

Dangote launches $16 billion oil refinery in Kenya's Lamu county

Rank
Ran: 20h
Updated: 3d ago
Closed
Outlets: 7
Regions: 1
Countries: 4
Languages: 1

MyJoyOnline Ghana · English 1 Oct, 16:02 UTC

The earliest of 7 English reports

The only language so far · English, 7 reports

Read at MyJoyOnline

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: MyJoyOnline, 1 Oct, 16:02 UTC.
Second country: Nigeria, with Vanguard.
Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 2 Oct, 09:28 UTC.
Last article: 7 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 4 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 7 outlets · 4 countries · 100%

First movers

MyJoyOnline 1 Oct, 16:02 UTC
Vanguard +1h 10m
KBC +2h 35m
Citizen Digital +5h 18m
Nation +10h 58m

Last to join

Tuko 2 Oct, 09:37 UTC
Daily News 2 Oct, 09:28 UTC
Nation 2 Oct, 03:00 UTC
Citizen Digital 1 Oct, 21:20 UTC
KBC 1 Oct, 18:37 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Dangote launches $16 billion oil refinery in Kenya, 29 Sept to 1 Oct 2026, 28 outlets.

The figures

Coverage: 7 outlets in 4 countries. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 7 outlets, 1 state-owned, 1 public-service, 5 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 4: Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania. 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 MyJoyOnline, 1 Oct 2026, 16:02 UTC. First seen 1 Oct 2026, 16:50 UTC. Last seen 2 Oct 2026, 13:43 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: 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 Dangote launches $16 billion oil refinery in Kenya. 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

1 Oct 2026 354 3.50 4 3 4 3 4.0

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Started 1 Oct, 16:50 UTC · Updated 2 Oct, 13:43 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

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Africa 7 outlets

Nation Kenya 2 Oct, 13:43 UTC
From Turkana oilfields to Dangote Lamu refinery: The pipeline question
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- Lamu rising: How Sh2 trillion refinery promise is reshaping Kenya’s least populous county 2 Oct, 03:00 UTC
Tuko Kenya 2 Oct, 09:37 UTC
Tanzania, Uganda advance on joint oil project as Kenya launches refinery in Lamu
Daily News Tanzania 2 Oct, 09:28 UTC
Afreximbank hails Kenya’s 16bn US dollar Dangote oil refinery for bolstering EAC energy security
Citizen Digital Kenya 1 Oct, 21:20 UTC
How Middle East oil crisis led to Ksh.2 trillion Dangote refinery in Lamu: Ruto reveals
KBC Kenya 1 Oct, 18:37 UTC
Ruto: Lamu refinery project to attract Ksh908B foreign direct investment
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- Ruto: Kenya, Dangote agree on Turkana-Lamu oil pipeline 1 Oct, 18:37 UTC
Vanguard Nigeria 1 Oct, 17:12 UTC
Dangote’s $16bn Lamu refinery to cut Africa’s dependence on imported fuel — Afreximbank
MyJoyOnline Ghana 1 Oct, 16:02 UTC
Africa’s richest man launches Kenya oil refinery despite land protests