Angola experienced a brief disruption to its internet routing infrastructure early on August 31, 2026. The event, which lasted approximately 25 minutes, primarily affected the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) control plane. The disruption began at 03:25 UTC and concluded by 03:50 UTC.
Technical Details
The event registered a severity score of 36, with the primary impact observed on the BGP signal. The BGP signal measures the stability and visibility of routing announcements for the country’s IP address prefixes on the global internet. During the disruption, the number of visible BGP routes for Angola dropped by approximately 1% from its peak. Other connectivity metrics, including active probing (ping-slash24) and traffic volume (gtr-norm), showed lesser deviations of 5% and 62% respectively.
The cause has not been publicly attributed. Connectivity was reported restored following the 25-minute event.
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