Africa / South Africa · Politics

Senior South African police officer arrested for rape and grooming

Rank
Ran: 40h
Updated: 12d ago
Final
Outlets: 11
Regions: 4
Countries: 9
Languages: 1

Where it travelled

The 9 countries whose press covered it; when each joined is no longer held. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

64%

Africa 7 outlets · 5 countries · 64%
Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 9%
Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 9%
Europe 1 outlet · 1 country · 9%
International 1 outlet · 9%

The figures

Coverage: 11 outlets in 9 countries, across 4 regions. The article links are no longer held: they lasted a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 11 outlets, 11 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 5: Ghana, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, South Africa, Uganda. Americas 1: Canada. Asia-Pacific 1: Philippines. Europe 1: United Kingdom. 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: English.
Timeline: Earliest article News24, 21 Sept 2026, 17:33 UTC. First seen 21 Sept 2026, 19:40 UTC. Last seen 23 Sept 2026, 11:50 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, South Africa. Topic Politics. 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: 4.48, at the end of the last day measured. 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

22 Sept 2026 276 5.32 7 5 4 4 2.4 → 3.3

23 Sept 2026 304 4.48 11 9 4 4 3.3

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How this was measured

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Started 21 Sept, 19:40 UTC · Updated 23 Sept, 11:50 UTC

Covered by 11 outlets

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Africa 7 outlets

Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
22 Sept 2026	276	5.32	7	5	4	4	2.4 → 3.3
23 Sept 2026	304	4.48	11	9	4	4	3.3

Covered by 11 outlets

Africa 7 outlets

Americas 1 outlet

Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

Europe 1 outlet

International 1 outlet