Uganda Experiences BGP Control Plane Disruption
Uganda experienced a disruption to its internet control plane visibility on Tuesday, July 15, 2026. The event began at 08:10 UTC and lasted for approximately one hour and fifty minutes, concluding by 10:00 UTC. The primary impact was observed on the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)…
Uganda experienced a disruption to its internet control plane visibility on Tuesday, July 15, 2026. The event began at 08:10 UTC and lasted for approximately one hour and fifty minutes, concluding by 10:00 UTC. The primary impact was observed on the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) signal, which registers the visibility of network routing prefixes.
Technical Details
The disruption registered a severity score of 159, with the BGP signal showing a measurable drop in visible prefixes. The BGP signal measures the control plane visibility of a country’s announced IP address blocks. A concurrent, though less severe, drop was recorded in the ping-slash24 signal, which measures ICMP reachability across active IPv4 network blocks. The cause has not been publicly attributed.
The disruption was resolved by the end of the observation period.
