The Democratic Republic of the Congo experienced a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) control plane disruption on August 23, 2026. The event began at 16:20 UTC and lasted for approximately three and a half hours, concluding by 19:50 UTC. The disruption was characterized by a degradation in the BGP median signal, which measures the visibility of network prefixes in the global routing table.
Technical Details
The event recorded a severity score of 227. The primary affected signal was the BGP median, which saw a 1% drop from its peak value during the observation window. Other network telemetry signals, including active probing for IPv4 reachability and backscatter measurements, showed minor fluctuations but no significant correlated outages. The cause has not been publicly attributed.
Connectivity was reported restored by the end of the observation period.
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