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Africa / South Africa · Politics

US imposes visa restrictions on South Africa over racial discrimination

Rank
Ran
4d
Updated
16d ago
Final
Outlets
39
Regions
5
Countries
22
Languages
5

+11

Where it travelled

The 22 countries whose press covered it; when each joined is no longer held. 2 international outlets publish from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

23%23%15%21%13%

  • Africa 9 outlets · 5 countries · 23%
  • Americas 9 outlets · 4 countries · 23%
  • Asia-Pacific 6 outlets · 4 countries · 15%
  • Europe 8 outlets · 4 countries · 21%
  • Middle East 5 outlets · 4 countries · 13%
  • International 2 outlets · 5%

The figures

Coverage
39 outlets in 22 countries, across 5 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 39 outlets, 3 state-owned, 2 public-service, 34 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, Tanzania. Americas 4: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, United States. Asia-Pacific 4: China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia. Europe 4: France, Germany, Portugal, United Kingdom. Middle East 4: Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates. 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, Portuguese.
Timeline
Earliest article G1, 15 Sept 2026, 21:15 UTC. First seen 15 Sept 2026, 21:30 UTC. Last seen 19 Sept 2026, 22:00 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 Not judged. This story predates the hard-news rule (methodology 3.0). 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
29.98, 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
15 Sept 2026 77 10.06 10 7 – – 1.0
16 Sept 2026 39 21.71 37 21 – – 1.2
17 Sept 2026 96 13.34 38 22 – – 1.2
18 Sept 2026 119 10.60 39 22 – – 1.3
19 Sept 2026 17 29.98 39 22 – – 1.4

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How this was measured

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Started 15 Sept, 21:30 UTC · Updated 19 Sept, 22:00 UTC

Covered by 39 outlets

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Africa 9 outlets

  • Africanews Republic of the Congo
  • Daily Maverick South Africa
  • MyJoyOnline Ghana
  • News24 South Africa
  • Premium Times Nigeria
  • Punch Nigeria
  • The Citizen Tanzania
  • TimesLIVE South Africa
  • Vanguard Nigeria

Americas 9 outlets

  • Bloomberg United States
  • CBS News United States
  • Clarín Argentina
  • CTV News Canada
  • Estadão Brazil
  • Fox News United States
  • G1 Brazil
  • Infobae Argentina
  • New York Times United States

Asia-Pacific 6 outlets

  • CGTN China
  • Free Malaysia Today Malaysia
  • NDTV India
  • Tempo Indonesia
  • The Hindu India
  • Times of India India

Europe 8 outlets

  • Deutsche Welle Germany
  • Le Figaro France
  • Reuters United Kingdom
  • RTP Portugal
  • Sky News United Kingdom
  • The Africa Report France
  • The Guardian United Kingdom
  • The Independent United Kingdom

Middle East 5 outlets

  • Al Jazeera Qatar
  • Anadolu Agency Turkey
  • Arab News Saudi Arabia
  • Gulf News United Arab Emirates
  • Sky News Arabia United Arab Emirates

International 2 outlets

  • INTLAl-Araby Al-Jadeed International
  • INTLAllAfrica International

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