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CAF considers returning Africa Cup of Nations to biennial format

Rank
Running
42h
Updated
23h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
8
Regions
2
Countries
7
Languages
4

Punch Nigeria · English 9 Oct, 16:10 UTC

The earliest of 4 English reports

Read it also in Français (2) · العربية (1) · فارسی (1) · +2 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 8 after 43 hours.

2 4 6 8
0h 12h 24h 36h

Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Punch, 9 Oct, 16:10 UTC.
  2. Second country: Benin, with Benin Web TV.
  3. Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 9 Oct, 16:10 UTC.
  4. Second region: Asia-Pacific, with Afghanistan International.
  5. Now: 8 outlets.

Where it travelled

43 of 43 hours

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The 7 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

88%12%

  • Africa 7 outlets · 6 countries · 88%
  • Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 12%

First movers

  1. Punch 9 Oct, 16:10 UTC
  2. Benin Web TV +3m
  3. Vanguard +35m
  4. Mosaïque FM +3h 13m
  5. Afghanistan International +3h 37m

Latest arrivals

  1. PressAfrik 10 Oct, 11:29 UTC
  2. Citizen Digital 10 Oct, 08:31 UTC
  3. Business Day (ZA) 10 Oct, 06:25 UTC
  4. Afghanistan International 9 Oct, 19:47 UTC
  5. Mosaïque FM 9 Oct, 19:23 UTC

The figures

Coverage
8 outlets in 7 countries, across 2 regions, 1 of them trade press. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 8 outlets, 8 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 6: Benin, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Tunisia. Asia-Pacific 1: Afghanistan. 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, English, Persian, French.
Timeline
Earliest article Punch, 9 Oct 2026, 16:10 UTC. First seen 9 Oct 2026, 16:10 UTC. Last seen 10 Oct 2026, 11:29 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 Sport. Hard news Judged not hard news. Left off 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
0.13, 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
9 Oct 2026 247 3.46 4 3 4 3 4.6
10 Oct 2026 351 2.57 8 7 3 3 4.7

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How this was measured

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Started 9 Oct, 16:10 UTC · Updated 10 Oct, 11:29 UTC

Covered by 8 outlets

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  • PressAfrik Senegal 10 Oct, 11:29 UTC
    CAN : la CAF envisage un retour à une édition tous les deux ans
  • Citizen Digital Kenya 10 Oct, 08:31 UTC
    CAF reviewing decision to play Africa Cup of Nations every four years
  • Business Day (ZA) South Africa 10 Oct, 06:25 UTC
    Caf reviewing the decision to play Afcon every four years
  • Punch Nigeria 9 Oct, 23:20 UTC
    CAF considering biennial AFCON format return — Motsepe
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    • CAF president hints at return to AFCON’s two-year cycle 9 Oct, 16:10 UTC
  • Afghanistan International Afghanistan 9 Oct, 19:47 UTC
    کنفدراسیون فوتبال افریقا در تصمیم برگزاری چهارساله جام ملت‌ها تجدیدنظر می‌کند
  • Mosaïque FM Tunisia 9 Oct, 19:23 UTC
    الاتحاد الإفريقي يراجع قرار إقامة كأس الأمم الأفريقية كل 4 سنوات
  • Vanguard Nigeria 9 Oct, 16:44 UTC
    CAF considering return to biennial AFCON – Motsepe
  • Benin Web TV Benin 9 Oct, 16:13 UTC
    CAN : Motsepe envisage un retour au rythme de deux ans
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