Ethiopia Experiences Brief BGP Control Plane Disruption

Ethiopia registered a disruption in internet routing visibility on Sunday, July 27, 2026. The event, centered on the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) control plane, lasted for approximately 55 minutes. The disruption began at 11:35 UTC and concluded by 12:30 UTC.

Technical Details

The disruption was characterized by a degradation in the BGP signal, which measures the stability and visibility of routing announcements for a country’s IP address prefixes. The event recorded a severity score of 305. During the disruption period, the observed number of visible BGP routes dropped by 6% from its peak. Other network health indicators, including active probing reachability and traffic volume forecasts, showed minor concurrent fluctuations but were not the primary signals affected.

The cause has not been publicly attributed.

Network routing was observed to have stabilized by the end of the monitoring window.