Somalia Experiences Brief BGP Disruption

Somalia experienced a brief disruption to its internet control plane on Tuesday evening. The event, affecting Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) visibility, lasted approximately 35 minutes starting at 19:25 UTC.

Technical Details

The disruption recorded a severity score of 54. The affected BGP signal measures the stability of routing announcements for internet prefixes. During the event, the signal dropped by 2% from its peak. Other network health indicators, including active probing for IPv4 reachability and backscatter traffic measurements, showed minor concurrent fluctuations but no major degradation.

The cause has not been publicly attributed.

Connectivity was reported restored by 20:00 UTC.