Tracker

How African readers feel about the news this week: reader mood tracker

Name: Reader mood by country and week
Creator: PollsAfrica
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Readers of Country Pulse tap how a story makes them feel. This page adds those taps up by country and week.

Reader reaction, not a scientific poll

Refresh: Reactions are counted as they arrive; this page re-reads them every few minutes. The weekly reading covers the last 7 days.
Last update: 11 Oct 2026. Pulse stories are collected every 30 minutes.
Minimum: a country is shown only once it has at least 10 reactions in the period.

No country has reached 10 reactions in the last 7 days yet, so no figures are shown. Country Pulse covers 5 countries, and this page fills in as readers react to stories.

Open Country Pulse to read the day's stories and say how they make you feel.

What this is and is not

These are reactions from people who read a Pulse story and chose to tap. They are not a sample of the population, they are not weighted, and the share who tapped says nothing reliable about how a whole country feels. Each device can react once to each story. Read how we treat reader polls in our methods.

Download the weekly counts: CSV or open JSON, free to use under CC BY 4.0. Countries below the minimum are not included.

Cite this

PollsAfrica (2026). How African readers feel about the news this week: reader mood tracker. Retrieved 11 Oct 2026 from https://pollsafrica.com/trackers/reader-mood