Kongfinger

Fetches up to 10 listed outlets for a country right now (those reachable at the last weekly check first), extracts headline links from each homepage, and counts headlines that mention each watch term. Terms in the starter pack also match their French, Arabic, Portuguese and Swahili equivalents, and every hit shows which variant matched. Unreachable sites are shown as down; nothing is filled in.

The most frequent words and two-word phrases in the headlines from the scan above (each headline counts once; at least 2 headlines). Common words in English, French, Arabic, Portuguese and Swahili, and outlet and country names, are left out. Click one to add it as a watch term.

Scan a country to see its topics.

Once a day a scheduled job scans every country with the 12-topic starter pack (multilingual matching, up to 10 outlets each) and stores the counts. Lines are each topic's share of that day's headlines. Days when a country's outlets were unreachable are left as gaps, not guessed.

The repo's directory of African newspapers. "Listed (2021)" is the status recorded when it was compiled. "Last check" is the weekly reachability check: one polite request to each homepage, with the HTTP status, any redirect, and the date. A site that was down then may be up now.