Ethiopia experienced a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) control plane disruption on August 30, 2026, affecting the visibility of network prefixes. The event began at 05:35 UTC and lasted for nearly three hours, with a severity score of 965 recorded for the affected BGP signal.
Technical Details
The disruption was characterized by a degradation in the BGP median signal, which measures the control plane visibility of advertised internet prefixes. The signal’s value dropped by approximately 6% from its peak during the observation window. Other network health indicators, including active probing for IPv4 reachability and traffic backscatter measurements, did not show significant deviations during the same period.
The cause has not been publicly attributed.
Connectivity was reported restored by 08:30 UTC.
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