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Africa will be mostly fuel self-sufficient by 2030, says Dangote

Rank
Ran: 22h
Updated: 5d ago
Closed
Outlets: 8
Regions: 1
Countries: 5
Languages: 2

Vanguard Nigeria · English 29 Sept, 12:45 UTC

The earliest of 7 English reports

Read it also in Français (1)

Read at Vanguard

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Vanguard, 29 Sept, 12:45 UTC.
Second country: Senegal, with Seneweb.
Fastest hour: +4 outlets from 29 Sept, 13:20 UTC.
Last article: 8 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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Africa 8 outlets · 5 countries · 100%

First movers

Vanguard 29 Sept, 12:45 UTC
Punch +34m
Seneweb +1h 13m
Africanews +1h 27m
Channels TV +1h 33m

Last to join

Tuko 30 Sept, 11:38 UTC
The Sun (NG) 30 Sept, 06:19 UTC
Zambian Observer 29 Sept, 18:57 UTC
Channels TV 29 Sept, 14:18 UTC
Africanews 29 Sept, 14:13 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 8 outlets in 5 countries. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 8 outlets, 8 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 5: Kenya, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Senegal, 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, 29 Sept 2026, 12:45 UTC. First seen 29 Sept 2026, 13:10 UTC. Last seen 30 Sept 2026, 11:38 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 International. 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.
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

29 Sept 2026 306 3.94 6 4 6 4 3.3 → 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 29 Sept, 13:10 UTC · Updated 30 Sept, 11:38 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 8 outlets

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Africa 8 outlets

Tuko Kenya 30 Sept, 11:38 UTC
Aliko Dangote reveals timeline for upcoming East Africa refinery, when it'll be completed
The Sun (NG) Nigeria 30 Sept, 06:19 UTC
Dangote begins Kenya refinery project as Africa targets fuel self-sufficiency
Zambian Observer Zambia 29 Sept, 18:57 UTC
Dangote Predicts African Fuel Self-Sufficiency by 2030 with Major Refinery Push
Channels TV Nigeria 29 Sept, 14:18 UTC
Africa Will Be Mostly Self-Sufficient In Fuel By 2030 — Dangote
Africanews Republic of the Congo 29 Sept, 14:13 UTC
Nigerian oil tycoon Dangote says Africa will be mostly fuel self-sufficient by 2030
Seneweb Senegal 29 Sept, 13:59 UTC
L'Afrique sera pratiquement autosuffisante en carburants d'ici 2030 (Aliko Dangote)
Punch Nigeria 29 Sept, 13:20 UTC
Africa will largely end fuel imports by 2030 – Dangote
Vanguard Nigeria 29 Sept, 12:45 UTC
Africa will be mostly self-sufficient in fuel by 2030 – Dangote