Africa / Sudan · Conflict & Security

Drone strike kills four women in Sudan's Blue Nile

Rank
Ran: 10h
Updated: 2d ago
Closed
Outlets: 3
Regions: 2
Countries: 3
Languages: 1

Radio Dabanga Sudan · English 7 Oct, 13:38 UTC

The earliest of 3 English reports

The only language so far · English, 3 reports

Read at Radio Dabanga

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Radio Dabanga, 7 Oct, 13:38 UTC.
Second country: Saudi Arabia, with Arab News.
Second region: Middle East, with Arab News.
Last article: 3 outlets.

Where it travelled

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 2 outlets · 2 countries · 67%
Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 33%

First movers

Radio Dabanga 7 Oct, 13:38 UTC
Arab News +2h 41m
Radio Tamazuj +10h 8m

The figures

Coverage: 3 outlets in 3 countries, across 2 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 3 outlets, 3 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 2: South Sudan, Sudan. Middle East 1: Saudi Arabia. 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 Radio Dabanga, 7 Oct 2026, 13:38 UTC. First seen 7 Oct 2026, 13:40 UTC. Last seen 7 Oct 2026, 23:45 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, Sudan. 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: 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: Continued by RSF drone strike kills 30 civilians in Sudan. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.

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How this was measured

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Started 7 Oct, 13:40 UTC · Updated 23:45 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 3 outlets

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Radio Tamazuj South Sudan 7 Oct, 23:45 UTC
Four women killed in drone strikes on Damazin, Blue Nile
Arab News Saudi Arabia 7 Oct, 16:18 UTC
Drone strike kills 4 women in Sudan’s Blue Nile state
Radio Dabanga Sudan 7 Oct, 13:38 UTC
Sudan war: Four women killed in drone strikes on Ed Damazin, Blue Nile