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16,745subscribers

-11 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026

Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 10,000–31,623.

Register entry

Telegram ID-1001856125821
TypeChannel
Username@africaintel
DescriptionMain African Newsfeed Support: https://buymeacoffee.com/indjournalism Share the news: @africaintel_bot
Created10 November 2022measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel)
First recorded6 August 2026
Last confirmed live13 August 2026
Measurements held8
Confirmed unchanged1 time, most recently 13 August 2026
On Telegramt.me/africaintel

Growth

16,74516,76716,7566 August 2026 — 16,756 subscribers6 August 2026 — 16,755 subscribers7 August 2026 — 16,758 subscribers8 August 2026 — 16,757 subscribers9 August 2026 — 16,762 subscribers11 August 2026 — 16,767 subscribers12 August 2026 — 16,758 subscribers13 August 2026 — 16,745 subscribers6 August 202613 August 2026
8 measurements spanning 7 days, net -11. Dots are measurements; the straight line between them is drawn to join them, not to claim we know the path taken in between — snapshots are recorded only when a count changes, so gaps mean “no change observed”, never “interpolated”. The vertical axis spans 16,742–16,770 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded
Measured (UTC)SubscribersChange
13 Aug 2026, 09:0316,745-13
12 Aug 2026, 08:0316,758-9
11 Aug 2026, 06:5716,767+5
9 Aug 2026, 08:0616,762+5
8 Aug 2026, 10:3316,757-1
7 Aug 2026, 11:4016,758+3
6 Aug 2026, 14:0316,755-1
6 Aug 2026, 04:0716,756first reading

Engagement

100 posts held, back to 4 August 2026the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 18 pagesof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.

ERR · 30 days
4.18%
avg views ÷ 16,745 subscribers
Avg views / post
699
100 posts measured
Reaction rate
0.773%
reactions ÷ views · ER floor
Posts in window
100
of 100 held

ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.

ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views— note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate. It is computed over the 96 of 100 measured posts that carry a reaction reading, and over those same posts' views.

What these figures were computed from
WindowRolling 30 days · latest post in window 13 August 2026
Posts held100 (4 August 202613 August 2026)
Views total69,927
Reactions total529
Forwards / commentsnot exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated
Readings taken13 Aug 2026, 15:04 UTC

Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.

Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.

Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.

What this channel posts

Photos
7,320
Videos
1,240
Links
1,790

Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 13 August 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. A count marked was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints these counters in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈142,000 means somewhere between 141,500 and 142,499.

Reaction mix

456 reactions across 78 posts, in 32 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 16.9% of them.

Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
ReactionCountShareShare, drawn
7716.9%
🤔5211.4%
👍327.02%
🤮255.48%
🔥245.26%
🖕235.04%
🙏214.61%
😁204.39%
👎183.95%
💔173.73%
👏143.07%
🥱143.07%
🤯132.85%
❤‍🔥122.63%
🍾112.41%
😢112.41%
🌚102.19%
🤡91.97%
🤣91.97%
🕊81.75%
12 further kinds367.89%

No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.

Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.

Coverage. Reactions were read on 96 of the 100 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 529reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.

Measured over the 100 most recent posts we hold, published 4 August 2026 to 13 August 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.

Telegram Stars

Stars received
1
across the posts below
Posts paid on
1
of 100 we hold a reading for · 1%
Most on one post
1
single highest reading

A paid reaction is a reader spending Telegram Stars — bought with money — on a post by @africaintel. Telegram publishes the count on the public post preview alongside ordinary reactions, and this register reads it there. It is the only figure on this site that measures money moving rather than attention.

Stars are not reactions, and the two are never added. They are rendered in the same strip on Telegram and counted in the same shape, but one is a tap and the other is a purchase. The reaction totals and the engagement rate elsewhere on this page exclude every figure in this section, and no rate here is computed against a reaction count.

This is not revenue, and we publish no currency figure. What a Star costs a reader and what it pays a channel are different numbers, Telegram takes a share we cannot observe, and the terms have changed. Converting a Star count into money would be an estimate dressed as a measurement, so the count is where we stop.

Counted over the 100 most recent posts we hold for this entry, published 4 August 2026 to 13 August 2026. Star counts above 1,000 reach us in Telegram’s short form and carry the same three-significant-figure rounding as everything else on this page.

Recent posts

13 Aug 2026, 14:56 UTC44 viewsread 13 August 2026

🇰🇪 Kenya to host AUDA-NEPAD continental human capital centre The African Union Development Agency, AUDA-NEPAD, has announced plans for a Continental Centre of Excellence for Human Capital and Institutional Development to be hosted in Kenya. The proposal was presented during the inaugural AUDA-NEPAD Human Capital, Social and Institutional Development Week, which opened in Nairobi on 11 August 2026, with Chief Executi

13 Aug 2026, 13:53 UTC216 views5 reactionsread 13 August 2026

🇲🇦🇪🇸 Morocco says it has reinforced security at Ceuta border ahead of planned mass crossing calls Moroccan authorities said on Wednesday they had taken additional measures to prevent a new influx of migrants into the Spanish North African territory of Ceuta. Interior ministry spokesman Rachid El Khalfi said all necessary measures had been taken to counter attempts at illegal passage, after social media posts claimed

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13 Aug 2026, 12:58 UTC277 viewsread 13 August 2026

🇰🇪 Kenya mandates battery storage for new solar and wind projects Kenya Power has introduced new rules requiring Independent Power Producers developing solar and wind projects to include battery energy storage systems capable of supplying contracted power for three to four hours. The requirement applies to new intermittent generation projects and has already triggered early concerns from developers over possible ele

13 Aug 2026, 12:01 UTC312 views3 reactionsread 13 August 2026

🇺🇸🇨🇳 Afrobarometer poll shows US trailing China in African public opinion Afrobarometer’s 2026 report, published on 5 August, found that positive perceptions of the United States in Africa fell from 59% in 2019-2021 to 49% in 2021-2023 before recovering to 53% in 2024-2025, while approval of China’s impact held steady at 62%. The survey covered 38 countries, and the report said China appears to be gaining ground in

2🕊1

13 Aug 2026, 11:04 UTC335 views3 reactionsread 13 August 2026

🇳🇬 Nigeria regulator disputes claims of crude shortage for Dangote refinery Nigeria’s upstream petroleum regulator has challenged claims that local producers are not supplying enough crude to the Dangote refinery, saying Nigerian crude remains available for domestic processing. The dispute centres on continued crude imports by the refinery owned by Aliko Dangote despite government efforts to prioritise local supply

2🤔1

13 Aug 2026, 09:59 UTC350 views1 reactionsread 13 August 2026

🇿🇲 Zambia votes in elections expected to favour incumbent Hichilema Zambia goes to the polls on Thursday in a general election widely expected to give President Hakainde Hichilema a second term. The vote comes as frustration over the cost of living may dent support for the incumbent. Hichilema is seeking re-election as Zambia holds a nationwide vote, with the economic situation emerging as a key issue in the campai

🤔1

13 Aug 2026, 08:55 UTC485 views4 reactionsread 13 August 2026

🇨🇩 WHO says DR Congo Ebola outbreak could become deadliest on record World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the 2026 Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is on track to surpass the 2014-2016 epidemic, which killed at least 11,000 people. The current outbreak, declared on 15 May, has recorded at least 4,300 cases and more than 2,000 deaths, while WHO Africa director M

😢3😈1

13 Aug 2026, 08:02 UTC474 views1 reactionsread 13 August 2026

🇱🇾 Assassination of Libyan general complicates Haftar’s push in southern border region The assassination of Major General Fawzi al Mansouri is set to complicate Khalifa Haftar’s efforts to consolidate control in Libya’s southern Fezzan region, according to The Africa Report. Fezzan borders Niger and Chad and is a key corridor for arms trafficking and migrant smuggling, while also drawing attention from Russia as its

🤔1

13 Aug 2026, 06:59 UTC516 views1 reactionsread 13 August 2026

🇹🇩 Chad anti-corruption inspectors detained, assaulted at state oil firm, authority says Chad's independent anti-corruption authority, AILC, said on Wednesday that security agents detained and assaulted its inspectors while they were examining the crude-oil operations of the state-owned Chadian Hydrocarbons Company, SHT. The allegation was made in a statement by the authority. The incident centres on an inspection

😱1

13 Aug 2026, 06:01 UTC543 views6 reactionsread 13 August 2026

🇸🇩 RSF renews assault on Sudan's al-Obeid as drones strike capital, witnesses say Sudan's Rapid Support Forces renewed its assault on the city of al-Obeid on Wednesday and stepped up drone and land attacks across the country this week, according to witnesses cited by Reuters. The reported attacks came after the RSF suffered losses on several fronts. Al-Obeid is a key city in Sudan, and the latest reported escalatio

3🤬2😢1

12 Aug 2026, 14:49 UTC773 views5 reactionsread 13 August 2026

🇰🇪 🇧🇼 🇬🇭 Kenya, Botswana and Ghana highlighted as Africa’s sovereign wealth fund expansion accelerates A wave of sovereign wealth fund creation is gathering pace across Africa, with the Democratic Republic of Congo establishing a fund in June 2025, followed by Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso and Kenya in April, May and July 2026 respectively. In 2025 alone, five new structures were created, bringing the continent’s tota

🤔3🤣2

12 Aug 2026, 13:57 UTC668 views7 reactionsread 13 August 2026

🇸🇴 MSF warns of deepening malnutrition crisis among displaced children in Somalia Doctors Without Borders said on August 11 that half of all children living in displacement sites in southwest Somalia are now suffering from acute malnutrition. Since January, MSF has screened more than 21,000 children under five in Baidoa and found acute malnutrition rates of around 50 percent, as prolonged drought, worsening food ins

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Showing the 12 most recent of 100 posts we hold for @africaintel. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.

Citation-graph rank

Citation-graph rank — 22,740 of 1,176,251entries in the measured graph. A weighted position computed from the forward and mention edges below — republished posts weigh more than named mentions — and recomputed periodically, over the whole graph. Published only as this ordinal position, never as a score: a position is a fact, and a score printed beside one channel’s name would read as a verdict this register does not make. The two counts beneath stay separate for the same reason mentions are never summed with forwards anywhere else on this page — a named-by count costs nothing to manufacture. The top 100 by this measure, or how it is computed.

Forward network

Built only from forwarded posts we have actually read, on both sides. Coverage is early and deliberately incomplete: a missing link means we have not read the post that would prove it, never that the relationship does not exist. Counts are distinct forwarded posts observed, so they only ever go up as we read more.

Mentions

Named by 15 registered channels — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.

A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.

Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels

The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.

Rerum Novarum // Intel, Breaking News, and Alerts 🇺🇸
@rnintel · 178,397
Telegram ranks this channel #51 of 81 here — alongside 80 others — read 12 August 2026
Disclose.tv
@disclosetv · 328,133
Telegram ranks this channel #52 of 74 here — alongside 73 others — read 10 August 2026
Middle East Spectator — MES
@middle_east_spectator · 385,979
Telegram ranks this channel #57 of 84 here — alongside 83 others — read 10 August 2026
Global News Monitor
@warmonitors · 155,446
Telegram ranks this channel #62 of 82 here — alongside 81 others — read 12 August 2026
Geopolitics Prime | Iran & Ukraine News Updates
@geopolitics_prime · 295,285
Telegram ranks this channel #65 of 86 here — alongside 85 others — read 10 August 2026
DD Geopolitics
@DDGeopolitics · 191,562
Telegram ranks this channel #66 of 84 here — alongside 83 others — read 11 August 2026
Intel Slava
@intelslava · 395,572
Telegram ranks this channel #70 of 84 here — alongside 83 others — read 10 August 2026
ENTRE GUERRAS
@entre_guerras · 137,717
Telegram ranks this channel #80 of 91 here — alongside 90 others — read 13 August 2026

This channel appears in 8 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.

Cite this entry

A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 13 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.

“Africa Intel” (@africaintel), 16,745 subscribers as measured 13 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/africaintel.

Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.