Sao Tome and Principe Tension Score

• 1 headlines in 30 days — 0.01% of everything the engine read, in line with the previous 30 days (0).
• 0% of those were violent (attacks, strikes, casualties) and 0% scored as high-tension stories.
• Conflicts on the roster: none. Sao Tome and Principe is not a party to any conflict our engine tracks right now.
• Region: Africa reads 64 today; it carries 15% of this score.

Read it like this. Attention (how much the world is talking about Sao Tome and Principe) is the biggest input at 30%. Violence and high-tension share tell you what kind of talk it is. A country can be loud and calm — an election, a summit — or quiet and dangerous. The mix is the point.

Five inputs, fixed weights. Attention 30% (share of world coverage), violence 25% and high-tension share 15% (what kind of coverage), roster conflicts 15%, and the Africa region score 15%. A momentum nudge (+6 / −4) rewards a country whose coverage is accelerating or fading.

Same physics as the world score. The number rises 85% of the way to its new level at once and falls no faster than 3 points a day — fear arrives fast and leaves slowly.

No third-party index inside. Every count comes from the 41 public news feeds our engine reads itself; the full method is on the methodology page. Data is free under CC BY 4.0 via the API.

Is Sao Tome and Principe in a war right now?

Not on our roster. Sao Tome and Principe is not a party to any tracked conflict; the engine flags new candidates automatically when coverage repeats.

Is tension in Sao Tome and Principe rising or falling?

Easing: down 1 points in 7 days.

How does Sao Tome and Principe compare with the rest of Africa?

Below its region: Sao Tome and Principe reads 10 against 64 for Africa, ranking #41 of 53 there.

Gulf of Guinea islands. Sao Tome appears rarely, usually in maritime security or election stories.

What our engine watches in Sao Tome and Principe

• Elections