Cameroon experienced connectivity disruption for nearly three hours
Cameroon experienced a significant internet connectivity disruption beginning shortly after midnight UTC on June 19. The event lasted approximately two hours and forty minutes, with the most severe impact recorded around 00:40 UTC.
Technical Details
The disruption registered a severity score of 3,692, primarily driven by a degradation in the ping-slash24 signal. This signal measures ICMP reachability across IPv4 /24 network prefixes and recorded a drop of 47% from its peak value during the event.
Other network signals also showed deviations. The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) signal, which reflects control plane visibility for network prefixes, saw a 20% drop from its peak. The merit-nt signal, a proxy for aggregate connectivity based on backscatter measurements, recorded an 80% drop. The gtr.sarima signal, which forecasts deviations from an expected traffic baseline, showed a 68% drop from its peak.
The cause has not been publicly attributed.
Connectivity was reported restored by 03:20 UTC.
