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South Africa withdraws asylum directive after anti-migrant violence

How this story moved: how many newsrooms carried it at each run, when each one picked it up, how our summary's headline changed, and which figures and names held from the first reports to the latest. Everything here is counted from the coverage; none of it is a judgement of anyone's motives.

OUTLETS CARRYING THE STORY, RUN BY RUN

0 14 29 10 Oct 11 Oct 12 Oct 13 Oct 14 Oct 15 Oct 16 Oct 17 Oct 9 Oct 12:15 UTC · South Africa withdraws asylum directive after anti-migrant violence 9 Oct 18:15 UTC · South Africa withdraws asylum directive after anti-migrant violence 11 Oct 00:24 UTC · South Africa withdraws asylum directive after anti-migrant violence

HOW OUR HEADLINE CHANGED · 1 HEADLINE

  1. 9 Oct, 12:15 UTC

    South Africa withdraws asylum directive after anti-migrant violence

WHAT HELD, WHAT CAME LATER

From the first reports to the latest

  • Nothing ran from the first third of the coverage to the last.

Entered the story later

  • Nothing new took hold after the first third.

Figures reported with different numbers

  • vehicles torched: 10 (3 from 8 Oct 20:43) → 14 (3 from 9 Oct 08:28)

Matched by pattern, not read: a different number can be a correction, a rising count, or two different counts.