Origin
World Monitor began in January 2026 as a weekend project. Elie Habib — co-founder and CEO of the music-streaming platform Anghami — built the first version in a matter of days to see whether a day’s worth of chaotic geopolitical news could be made legible on one map. He posted it once and moved on. It didn’t stay quiet. As global events escalated through 2026, the dashboard reached hundreds of thousands of users in its first week and has since grown to millions of people across more than 170 countries — most of them well outside the usual intelligence-tooling audience. It is now one of the most-starred open-source OSINT projects on GitHub, with 60,000+ stars.What makes it different
World Monitor has no newsroom and no human editors. Instead it leans on method:- Convergence over noise. Signals are cross-checked against multiple independent sources before anything surfaces as an alert, so a single unverified report doesn’t become a headline.
- A tiered source hierarchy. Wire services and official channels (Reuters, AP, the Pentagon, the UN) rank above major broadcasters (BBC, Al Jazeera), which rank above specialist open-source outlets (Bellingcat) — with provenance kept visible.
- Breadth in one place. ADS-B aircraft transponders, AIS maritime positions, ACLED and UCDP conflict datasets, NASA fire detections, GPS-jamming and outage data, prediction markets, and commodity prices all sit on the same globe.
- A Country Instability Index. Every country is scored 0–100 from baseline risk, unrest, security events, and information velocity, adjusted in real time.
- AI on top, not instead. Automated briefings, country risk, and forecasts are generated from the underlying signals — not from a chatbot’s imagination.
Mission
Situational awareness of the world shouldn’t require a five-figure terminal. World Monitor’s goal is to make credible, real-time global intelligence — the kind normally reserved for governments, funds, and newsrooms — accessible to anyone with a browser.Who builds it
World Monitor is built by Elie Habib, co-founder and CEO of Anghami — the first Arab technology company to list on NASDAQ. His work on World Monitor and its origins were covered by WIRED. The platform is open source under AGPL-3.0-only — see the License and Trademark Policy.In the press
- WIRED — How a music-streaming CEO built an open-source global threat map in his spare time
- The Economic Times — God’s view: the rise of AI war dashboards
- Arabian Business — Anghami co-founder’s AI tool tracking global crises draws millions of users
- Entrepreneur Middle East — How Elie Habib built World Monitor to track global events in real time
- Silicon Canals — Anghami CEO’s side project now has 2 million users
- L’Orient Today — How the Anghami CEO’s side project became a go-to for geopolitics research
Explore
- Dashboard — the live map
- Pro — deeper signal, more AI briefings, a research assistant
- Documentation — API, MCP, and platform guides
- GitHub — source and issues
- Blog — analysis and product updates