Entity

Congo

A topic on our watch list — we track its coverage across 12 coverage verticals, including Africa, Critical Minerals and Telecom.

As of 29 Oct 2026Last evidence 28 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Congo’s Ebola outbreak tops 10,000 cases as authorities race to slow the spread in African countries

    Reported event · first reported 23 Oct 2026 to 25 Oct 2026 · 2 claims · best-carried claim: 7 separate publishers

  • Nigeria’s Ebola case sparks travel dispute, Switzerland denies patient visited Congo

    Reported claim · first reported 23 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • WHO announces start of Ebola vaccine clinical trial in DR Congo

    Reported claim · first reported 23 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

  • Ebola: 20 contacts released from quarantine in Kenya, amid vaccine ‘hope’ in Democratic Republic of the (DR) Congo

    Reported claim · first reported 23 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

All 4 events and claims involving Congo

What changed

  • Attention Steady: 33 mentions on 29 Oct 2026, against 35 on 8 Oct 2026 (-6%).
  • State No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 17 Oct 2026.
  • Claims No claim first reported since 28 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

821 documents · 147 publishers · 4% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 28 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.043: about 96% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 3 receipts withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Congo

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

AfricaEbolaKenyaNigeriaImmigrationUgandaFranceUnited States
  • Dr Congo · 579 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Africa · 577 shared documents
  • Ebola · 261 shared documents
  • Kenya · 256 shared documents
  • Nigeria · 225 shared documents
  • Immigration · 224 shared documents
  • Uganda · 202 shared documents
  • France · 172 shared documents
  • United States · 170 shared documents
  • WHO · 159 shared documents · no page of its own yet

Story momentum

Steady

The word compares 33 mentions on 29 Oct 2026 with 35 on 8 Oct 2026 (-6%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +200% from 14 Sept 2026 to 29 Oct 2026, between 6 and 62 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Congo, day by day.

Market price, cited

Not priced yet

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For developers

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The figures on this page, as data. The tool returns the full entity record.

Events involving Congo

Most-reported first, then newest. Registered events come from the event record; reported events are groups of claims about one occurrence. Claims are grouped when they were first reported within 2 days of each other and either name at least 2 of the same people, places or things besides this one, or share at least 25% of their wording. Each claim keeps its own record.

  • Congo’s Ebola outbreak tops 10,000 cases as authorities race to slow the spread in African countries

    Reported event · first reported 23 Oct 2026 to 25 Oct 2026 · 2 claims · best-carried claim: 7 separate publishers

    Show the 2 individual claims
    • Congo’s Ebola outbreak tops 10,000 cases as authorities race to slow the spread in African countries · corroborated · first reported 23 Oct 2026 · 7 separate publishers
    • Uganda imposes 21-day Ebola quarantine, continues investigation into Nigeria’s case · corroborated · first reported 25 Oct 2026 · 5 separate publishers

  • Nigeria’s Ebola case sparks travel dispute, Switzerland denies patient visited Congo

    Reported claim · first reported 23 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • WHO announces start of Ebola vaccine clinical trial in DR Congo

    Reported claim · first reported 23 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Ebola: 20 contacts released from quarantine in Kenya, amid vaccine ‘hope’ in Democratic Republic of the (DR) Congo

    Reported claim · first reported 23 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    reported by two

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Congo

Entity.

Evidence
821 documents · 147 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 3 Sept 2026, last seen 28 Oct 2026
Measured
4% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
29 Oct 2026
15 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (5)

  • Corroborated: Reported by three or more sources that did not copy each other.
  • Reported by two: Reported by two sources that did not copy each other.

Situations it is named in (0)

none on file at this cutoff

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What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names Congo, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

Evidence tiers: primary source = an official public record · attributed = a named outlet, receipt linked · lead = observed, not yet receipted.

What it connects to

Related records.

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Recorded history

No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 17 Oct 2026.

Ask about CongoWatch Congo

Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 29 Oct 2026.