Niger Experiences Brief BGP Disruption Affecting Network Visibility

Niger experienced a brief disruption to its Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing on July 11, 2026, affecting the visibility of its network prefixes. The event lasted approximately 15 minutes, starting at 18:50 UTC and ending by 19:05 UTC.

Technical Details

The disruption registered a severity score of 15. The affected bgp.median signal, which measures the control plane visibility of a country’s advertised IP prefixes, showed a 1% drop from its peak during the observation window. Other network health indicators, including active probing for IPv4 reachability and backscatter traffic measurements, showed minor fluctuations but no significant concurrent outages. The cause has not been publicly attributed.

The disruption was resolved within the same observation period.