This week’s brief highlights findings from the monitoring period, 12 to 18 August, 2026. During this period, 142 election-related items were recorded and analysed. In the previous brief, 184 election-elated news stories were recorded and analysed. This decrease may be attributed to media coverage focusing more on the 46th Ordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) that took place in Durban.

Read this week's analysis below.

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