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Africa / Ethiopia · Conflict & Security

Ethiopia accuses Eritrea, Sudan, Egypt of backing Tigray rebels

Rank
Ran
42h
Updated
5d ago
Closed
Outlets
9
Regions
3
Countries
7
Languages
4

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Al Jazeera Qatar · English 28 Sept, 11:00 UTC

The earliest of 6 English reports

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

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 9 after 43 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, 28 Sept, 08:38 UTC.
  2. Second region: Middle East, with Al Jazeera.
  3. Second country: France, with RFI.
  4. Last article: 9 outlets.

Where it travelled

44 of 44 hours

Earlier Later

The 7 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. 2 international outlets publish from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

45%22%22%

  • Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 11%
  • Europe 4 outlets · 3 countries · 45%
  • Middle East 2 outlets · 2 countries · 22%
  • International 2 outlets · 22%

First movers

  1. INTLAl-Araby Al-Jadeed 28 Sept, 08:38 UTC
  2. Al Jazeera +2h 22m
  3. RFI +4h 11m
  4. The Independent +7h 31m
  5. Arab News +14h 13m

Last to join

  1. El País 30 Sept, 03:40 UTC
  2. Le Monde 29 Sept, 16:00 UTC
  3. Hiiraan Online 29 Sept, 07:53 UTC
  4. INTLAllAfrica 29 Sept, 04:35 UTC
  5. Arab News 28 Sept, 22:50 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Ethiopian army accuses Egypt, Sudan of backing opposition groups, 26 to 27 Sept 2026, 4 outlets.

The figures

Coverage
9 outlets in 7 countries, across 3 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 9 outlets, 1 state-owned, 1 public-service, 7 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 1: Somalia. Europe 3: France, Spain, United Kingdom. Middle East 2: Qatar, Saudi Arabia. International 1: the outlets that publish from no single country, counted as one. 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, Spanish, French.
Timeline
Earliest article Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, 28 Sept 2026, 08:38 UTC. First seen 28 Sept 2026, 08:40 UTC. Last seen 30 Sept 2026, 03:40 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, Ethiopia. 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
Continues Ethiopian army accuses Egypt, Sudan of backing opposition groups. Continued by Les combats se poursuivent en Éthiopie, Addis Abeba accuse Asmara, Khartoum et Le Caire de soutenir les rebelles tigréens. 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
28 Sept 2026 168 6.11 5 5 5 5 3.3
29 Sept 2026 254 4.98 8 6 4 4 3.3 → 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 28 Sept, 08:40 UTC · Updated 30 Sept, 03:40 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 9 outlets

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Africa 1 outlet

  • Hiiraan Online Somalia 29 Sept, 07:53 UTC
    Ethiopia’s army chief accuses Eritrea, Sudan and Egypt of supporting Tigray rebels

Europe 4 outlets

  • El País Spain 30 Sept, 03:40 UTC
    La guerra civil en Etiopía amenaza con saltar más allá de sus fronteras
  • Le Monde France 29 Sept, 16:00 UTC
    L’Ethiopie accuse l’Erythrée, le Soudan et l’Egypte de soutenir les rebelles
  • The Independent United Kingdom 28 Sept, 16:09 UTC
    Ethiopia’s army chief accuses Eritrea, Sudan and Egypt of supporting Tigray rebels
  • RFI France 28 Sept, 12:48 UTC
    Ethiopia accuses Sudan, Eritrea of backing Tigray forces as fighting escalates

Middle East 2 outlets

  • Al Jazeera Qatar 29 Sept, 17:25 UTC
    Ethiopia blames regional rivals as risk of conflict spillover rises
    +1 more articleHide 1 more article
    • Ethiopia accuses Sudan, Egypt of backing Tigray rebels as fighting rages 28 Sept, 11:00 UTC
  • Arab News Saudi Arabia 28 Sept, 22:50 UTC
    Ethiopia’s army chief accuses Eritrea, Sudan and Egypt of supporting Tigray rebels

International 2 outlets

  • INTLAllAfrica International 29 Sept, 04:35 UTC
    Eritrea: Ethiopia Accuses Sudan, Eritrea of Backing Tigray Forces As Fighting Escalates
  • INTLAl-Araby Al-Jadeed International 28 Sept, 08:38 UTC
    الجيش الإثيوبي يتهم إريتريا والسودان ومصر بدعم متمردي تيغراي
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