NAMES · WHO THE NEWS NAMED · 10-19 TO 11-01

RSF

org

Named in 400 articles by 17 newsrooms, in 132 stories, on 14 of the last 14 days, first on 10-19.

Rank

0.0462

by the company kept · 1 is the top name

Articles

400

931 mentions

Linked to

308

names in 2+ shared articles

This week

1.53×

against last week

In Houthi's circle

23%

of that hub's 30 closest names are also linked here

Bridging

between groups · 1 is the top bridge

Most exclusively tied top 30 · ties that pass the test on the right, most exclusive first

The names that appear with RSF in a large share of their own coverage: this name's own company. Exclusivity runs from 0, two names that meet no more than chance would have them, to 1, two names that only ever appear together. A name that is in everything, a president, is exclusive to no one, so the big names fall away here and the names that belong to this one stay. Only ties that pass the strength test count, so a pair seen twice is not a tie. Places are context and have no page.

Name	Kind	Exclusivity	Together
Rapid Support Forces	org	0.92	279
Khartoum	gpe	0.799	120
Darfur	gpe	0.788	101
Sudan	gpe	0.764	350
White Nile	loc	0.748	32
Nyala	gpe	0.747	62
Blue Nile	loc	0.738	47
West Kordofan	gpe	0.728	54
Kordofan	gpe	0.727	53
North Kordofan	gpe	0.698	28
South Sudan	gpe	0.677	66
Abyei	gpe	0.648	49
Chad	gpe	0.581	25
Somaliland	gpe	0.571	14
Emirati	gpe	0.531	34
Port Sudan	gpe	0.521	6
United S	gpe	0.478	6
Ethiopia	gpe	0.475	59
UNICEF	org	0.468	14
United Nations	org	0.439	187
Security Council	org	0.439	20
Amnesty International	org	0.434	18
Libya	gpe	0.414	25
United Arab Emirates	gpe	0.407	34
AFP	org	0.38	62
Nile	loc	0.378	2
Savannah	gpe	0.368	2
Ministry of Foreign Affairs	org	0.367	14
Costa Rica	gpe	0.364	7
Afar	gpe	0.363	4

Most strongly tied the ties chance explains least

How sure the record is that two names appear together for a reason. Strength is a standard statistical test (log-likelihood): above 10.8, chance would produce the pairing less than once in a thousand times. It grows with the number of articles, so the biggest names come first here; the list on the left is where this name's own company shows.

Name	Strength	Together
Rapid Support Forces	4225	279
Sudan	4130	350
Khartoum	1620	120
Darfur	1369	101
United Nations	1155	187
Nyala	831	62
South Sudan	762	66
West Kordofan	708	54
Kordofan	696	53
Blue Nile	644	47
Abyei	554	49
White Nile	485	32
Ethiopia	443	59
North Kordofan	379	28
AFP	348	62

Articles per day

The hubs' circles share of each hub's 30 closest names that are also linked to this one

The eight most-named figures each have an inner circle: the thirty names most tied to them. This is how much of each circle this name is also tied to. A count of shared company in the coverage, nothing more.

Shared with Houthi: AFP, Amnesty International, Benjamin Netanyahu, Department of State, Donald Trump, European Union, Foreign Ministry, IMF, International Monetary Fund, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Security Council, Shehbaz Sharif, Treasury, UAE, UN Security Council, UNICEF, United Nations, WHO, World Bank.

The year 603 articles on 53 days, 2025-10-21 to 2026-11-01 · weekly bars · 15 months on record

Left is a year ago, right is this week. Older days come from headlines only, so their counts run lower than live days.

Named together, month by month · by surprise, among that month's articles · names with a page

2026-09 Rapid Support Forces 3

Stories that name RSF newest edition first · 24 shown

1 Nov
Netanyahu and Eisenkot seek coalition after inconclusive Israeli election world
31 Oct
Netanyahu and Eisenkot seek coalition after inconclusive Israeli election world
30 Oct
Netanyahu and Eisenkot seek coalition after inconclusive Israeli election world
29 Oct
Netanyahu and Eisenkot seek coalition after inconclusive Israeli election world
28 Oct
Netanyahu and Eisenkot seek coalition after inconclusive Israeli election world
27 Oct
Drone strikes in Abyei and West Kordofan reportedly kill more than 300 world
27 Oct
Israel Votes as Netanyahu Faces Close Challenge and Iran Dispute world
26 Oct
Drone strikes in Abyei and West Kordofan reportedly kill more than 300 world
26 Oct
Netanyahu warns Iran against election disruption as Israel prepares to vote world
25 Oct
Drone strikes in Abyei and West Kordofan reportedly kill more than 300 world
25 Oct
Security dominates final days of Israel’s election campaign world
24 Oct
Drone strikes in Abyei and West Kordofan reportedly kill more than 300 world
24 Oct
Netanyahu orders West Bank closure after checkpoint attack kills two Israeli soldiers world
23 Oct
Drone strikes in Abyei and West Kordofan reportedly kill more than 300 world
23 Oct
Netanyahu orders West Bank closure after deadly checkpoint attack near Hebron world
22 Oct
Drone strikes in Abyei and West Kordofan reportedly kill more than 300 world
22 Oct
Hegseth makes unannounced Israel visit amid discussions of possible Iran strikes world
22 Oct
More Than 150 Reported Killed in Drone Strike on Abyei Market world
21 Oct
Drone strikes in Abyei and West Kordofan reportedly kill more than 300 world
21 Oct
Hegseth meets Netanyahu during unannounced Israel visit amid Iran strike discussions world
21 Oct
Sudanese drone strike kills at least 153 at Abyei market, local official says world
20 Oct
Hegseth meets Netanyahu during unannounced Israel visit world
20 Oct
Drone strikes in Sudan and disputed Abyei region kill scores world
19 Oct
Trump backs Netanyahu as Israel’s election campaign focuses on Iran world

Names are found by a language model trained to spot them, joined to one spelling per person, and counted per article. The relations are the model's reading of the sources. Everything else is a count of who was written about together; it says nothing about why.