Ethiopia experienced a disruption to its internet routing control plane on Monday, August 17, 2026. The event, which affected the BGP signal, began at 08:25 UTC and lasted for approximately four hours, with a total severity score of 745. A second, more severe period of disruption was recorded between 11:00 and 12:30 UTC.
Technical Details
The primary impact was observed on the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), a system that manages how traffic is routed between networks on the internet. The BGP visibility metric recorded a peak drop of 6% from its normal baseline during the observation window. Other internet measurement signals, including active probing for IPv4 reachability and backscatter traffic analysis, showed lesser concurrent deviations, with drops of up to 10% and 42% respectively from their peaks.
The cause has not been publicly attributed. The disruption had concluded by 12:30 UTC.
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